Error when installing Google Gadgets on Intrepid

[drazgo]

Hi everyone,

I'm having issues while installing google gadgets on the new ubuntu 8.10. This is the error I'm getting when configuring the installing:

configure: WARNING: Library xml2 is not available, libxml2-xml-parser extension won't be built.


I checked in synaptic, and the package libxml2 is installed, so i really don't know how to solve this one. Can anyone help?

thanks in advance!
Drazgo

[falkTX]

32 or 64 bit?

[falkTX]

I know there was some deb files for Hardy, not sure about Intrepid.
But I will check, I'm also interested on gadgets

[drazgo]

32 bit i'm using here

and i already did a search for the deb packages,and couldn't find any for intrepid. I tried and install the hardy packages, and all went find after installing some dependencies, but when i try to start ggl-gtk, i get another error message:

laurens@laurens-laptop:~/Bureaublad/gadgets/build/debug$ ggl-gtk
Not a regular file: /
org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: Method "getDevices" with signature "" on interface "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" doesn't exist

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org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: Method "GetProperty" with signature "s" on interface "org.freedesktop.Hal.Manager" doesn't exist

Not a regular file: /
ggl-gtk: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/google-gadgets/modules/smjs-script-runtime.so: undefined symbol: JS_SetOperationCallback

[falkTX]

I check it. There's no Intrepid edition on the GoogleGagets on Launchpad (for now).

You probably need the libxml2-dev. You seem to be compiling from source, so the *-devs are always required to do that

[falkTX]

I saw a tutorial in Softpedia:
http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Deskt...ts-38486.shtml

I'll go try it right now

[drazgo]

nevermind mate! found the solution

this is how to install on intrepid:

1. download and install libltdl3:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/nl/hardy/libltdl3

it says hardy, but also works on intrepid

2. now just download and install google gadgets 0.10.1-0:

http://www.getdeb.net/release/3077

3. run ggl-gtk
4. that's it!

The problem with the other binaries i found was it was a version with bugs (0.10.1-1) so i just used a version lower and everything works fine

[falkTX]

I don't like messing around with differents versions, but sometimes is necessary.

[tgyorgyi]

Most likely libltdl3 is an obsolete package in Intrepid, but since the installer is for Hardy, it is still looking for it. But this is a nice workaround until the Intrepid version comes out.

[Chxta]

Thanks for this. I was getting tired of the fact that Liquid Weather doesn't work well in Intrepid...