./configure error in

[the_doctor1994]

while trying to install gnome system tools 2.91.1 the following happened:

root@grayson-dell-4700:/home/grayson/Downloads/gnome-system-tools-2.91.1# ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether NLS is requested... yes
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking for intltool >= 0.35.0... 0.35.5 found
checking for intltool-update... /usr/local/bin/intltool-update
checking for intltool-merge... /usr/local/bin/intltool-merge
checking for intltool-extract... /usr/local/bin/intltool-extract
checking for xgettext... /usr/local/bin/xgettext
checking for msgmerge... /usr/local/bin/msgmerge
checking for msgfmt... /usr/local/bin/msgfmt
checking for gmsgfmt... /usr/local/bin/msgfmt
/usr/local/bin/xgettext: error while loading shared libraries: libgettextsrc-0.18.1.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/usr/local/bin/msgmerge: error while loading shared libraries: libgettextsrc-0.18.1.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/usr/local/bin/msgfmt: error while loading shared libraries: libgettextsrc-0.18.1.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
configure: error: GNU gettext tools not found; required for intltool
root@grayson-dell-4700:/home/grayson/Downloads/gnome-system-tools-2.91.1#

i am running 10.10 on a dell 4700 intel pentium 4 2.8GHz, 3GiB RAM

also, i have gettext 0.18.1.1 installed

[earthmeLon]

gnome-system-tools can be found in Ubuntu's repositories. You can install it with #'apt-get install gnome-system-tools'

Is this not an acceptable way of installation for you?

OR

Also, intltool is found in the repositories. Try installing it with #'apt-get install intltool' and then re-run your ./configure.

Let me know how it goes.

Good luck!

[oldos2er]

Looks like you're missing one or more dependencies. If I run apt-cache search libgettext dev, the results are

libgettext-ocaml-dev - OCaml internationalization library
gettext - GNU Internationalization utilities

Since you say you already have gettext, try sudo apt-get install libgettext-ocaml-dev and see if that works.

[the_doctor1994]

after doing both of the suggested installs above the ./configure gets past what was not working before, but now i have the following error

configure: error: glib-compile-schemas not found.

[the_doctor1994]

i fixed the problem i was having with my GRUB loader (which was why i wanted to install gnome tools) so i no longer need to install gnome tools. thank you for all your help!

[earthmeLon]

i fixed the problem i was having with my GRUB loader (which was why i wanted to install gnome tools) so i no longer need to install gnome tools. thank you for all your help!

In order to for this thread to be resolved, and help any future Searchers/Googlers, would you mind trying to get it to compile?

It seems that glib-compile-schemas is part of glib2. Is it possible you are missing glib2 library?

sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev 

See if that helps

[MrRockchip]

Sorry for posting to old thread, but recently I have ran into the same problem,
and successfully solved it using an alternative way:

Run

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib

before ./configure , make , make install the gettext library.

Hope that will help to a lot of people, since it's the first search result in Google.

[wildmanne39]

Thanks for sharing and please do not post in threads that have not had activity for a year or longer, since this is an old thread it has been closed.