Shared Libraries Problem.....GTK/xfce/Nicotine!!

slacksteep · 10-09-2006, 12:25 PM

Good Day all....!!

I ran into a muddy phase trying to get some packages updated manually so I 'd appreciate some quick insight help.

I am on a 10.2 (2.4 kernel) installation.
I wanted to install newer versions of the gtk package so I got into all this mess with the prerequisites .... and finally managed
to install all in the proper order ( or so....I thought).

So I installed everything (atk, cairo, glib, pango and gtk) from source which I tarred in the /opt/src directory...then used ./configure with no prefix specified... all seemed fine!

Last step was to install the newer version of the pygtk package, which was a prerequisite for installing the slsk-client Nicotine.
Up to now I had the pygtk installed on my user /home/ directory and all dependent packages( for instance bittorrent) also installed on the same directory worked fine. But I thought I 'd install the newer version of pygtk logged as root with no prefix specified...cause I figured it is a generic-use package, so it's better to have it somewhere 'central'...and use it if logged as another user too!

1. As a result, now when I try to run the Nicotine-slsk client, logged as user I get the following message:

Code:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./nicotine", line 142, in ?
    result = checkenv()
  File "./nicotine", line 68, in checkenv
    import gtk
ImportError: No module named gtk

2. Additionally after all this updating...when I am in xfce the xffm-filemanager doesn't respond and I get the message on my console:

Code:

xffm: symbol lookup error: /usr/local/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_object_compat_control

3. Last,

When I tried to install a xfce-plugin( the xfce4-xkb-plugin-0.4.1) for handling keybord-language-switching...after doing
./configure
I get:

Code:

checking for libxfce4panel-1.0 >= 4.3.20... not found
*** The required package libxfce4panel-1.0 was not found on your system.
*** Please install libxfce4panel-1.0 (atleast version 4.3.20) or adjust
*** the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
*** installed the package in a nonstandard prefix so that
*** pkg-config is able to find it.

I presume something is wrong with my shared libraries but don't quite know how to fix it...I did run ldconfig every after installation-update.
Any ideas.....?

Thnx

LiNuCe · 10-10-2006, 05:23 AM

The ./configure script uses pkg-config to find softwares. So add to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable all pkgconfig/ directories you can find in the different installation prefixes you used to install softwares. For example :

Code:

# export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/home/plop/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
# ./configure ...

Ilgar · 10-10-2006, 01:47 PM

To fix the last error, you must install XFCE 4.4 beta (it's beta yet). Or, get an XFCE 4.2 version of that plugin.

slacksteep · 10-10-2006, 01:57 PM

thnx people...I am working on poth of your replies!
it takes me awhile...

I ll get back to you with the outcome
take care

kotnik · 11-05-2006, 06:06 PM

Hey, I had the same issue with libxfce4panel in Slackware 11. I needed the wireless monitor. Problem solved by upgrading XFCE package with the one provided from linuxpackages.net. Not only does plugins compile as they should, XFCE 4.3 looks and behaves much better than 4.2.

But, note, I had to do some symlinking in /usr/lib, since package creator missed to do that (just a couple of libraries, nothing much).