Install tar files

[mugs]

What does error 1 and error 2 mean when I am trying to install a tarball? I am trying to install the latest version of gkrellm. I do a make and it ends with those 2 errors...how do I resolve that?

thanks.

[SkyNet]

There should be more information then this. Could you post the rest?

[mugs]

Here ya go:

mugs@linux:~> su
Password:
linux:/home/mugs # cd Desktop/gk
linux:/home/mugs/Desktop/gk # ls
. .. gkrellm-2.1.4 gkrellm-2.1.4.tar.bz2
linux:/home/mugs/Desktop/gk # cd gkrellm-2.1.4
linux:/home/mugs/Desktop/gk/gkrellm-2.1.4 # make
(cd po && make all)
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/mugs/Desktop/gk/gkrellm-2.1.4/po'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mugs/Desktop/gk/gkrellm-2.1.4/po'
(cd src && make gkrellm)
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/mugs/Desktop/gk/gkrellm-2.1.4/src'
cc -Wall -O2 -I.. `pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0 gthread-2.0` -DENABLE_NLS -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/share/locale\" -c -o main.o main.c
/bin/sh: pkg-config: command not found
In file included from main.c:22:
gkrellm.h:30: gtk/gtk.h: No such file or directory
In file included from main.c:24:
gkrellm-sysdeps.h:62: parse error
make[1]: *** [main.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mugs/Desktop/gk/gkrellm-2.1.4/src'
make: *** [all] Error 2
linux:/home/mugs/Desktop/gk/gkrellm-2.1.4 #


I know it says to CD to PO, but nothing happens when I try to make from there...
Thanks.

[trommaster]

/bin/sh: pkg-config: command not found

gkrellm.h:30: gtk/gtk.h: No such file or directory

hmmmm, looks like you need the gtk-devel package. (thats what its called in rh)

[mugs]

Thanks, I got gtk 2.0 and the dependencies it needed and still no go.... ???

[garskoci]

I have never done this before. Can you do a make on a tar file? Don't the files need to be extracted first? Just curious.

[JimH]

1) You need to extract the files first.

tar xjf filename

or

bunzip2 filename
tar xf filename

2) You have to run ./configure before make

./configure [options]

[mugs]

GTK and the rest were rpm's. With GKRELLM, there is no configure.

Sorry if I left out a step, yes I extracted first...

[JimH]

You must be missing the gtk2-devel package then.

[SkyNet]

mugs,

This particular part "gkrellm.h:30: gtk/gtk.h: No such file or directory" tells me that it cannot find "gtk-config." It's to bad there is no ./configure or you could specify where gtk-config was. See if you can find it on your system. Become root then type find / -name "gtk-config"