gDesklets in Fedora

[Scott Ware]

> Clifford,
> Thanks for the reply.  I never installed gDesklets but after seeing your
> reply, I decided to download the source and give it a shot.  I got the
> following errors when trying to compile:
>
> -----------------------
>
> checking for gnome-python-2.0 >= 1.99.14 pygtk-2.0 >= 1.99.14 gdk-2.0
> gtk+-2.0... Package pygtk-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `pygtk-2.0.pc'
> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> No package 'pygtk-2.0' found
>
> configure: error: Library requirements (gnome-python-2.0 >= 1.99.14
> pygtk-2.0 >= 1.99.14 gdk-2.0 gtk+-2.0) not met; consider adjusting the
> PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a
> nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.
>
> -----------------------
>
> I'm running FCT3 and have all the packages completely up2date.  These are
> the packages I have but I can't seem to find gdk-2.0 anywhere ( I'm
> assuming pygtk-2.0.pc is in this package b/c I can't find it on my
> system).  Not even on the FCT3 ISOs or rawhide:
>
> gnome-python2-2.0.0-2
> pygtk2-2.0.0-1
> gdk-pixbuf-gnome-0.22.0-3.0
> gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0-3.0
> gtk+-1.2.10-28.1
> pygtk2-libglade-2.0.0-1
> gtk2-2.2.4-5.1
>
> I hope installing at home is easier :-)
>
> Thanks again
> Pankaj
>
> -------------------- Original Message -------------------------
> I have gDesklets running with both the SysInfo and hddtemp sensors.  My
> system is fully up2date with the exception of the same couple of file
> that others are having problem with.
>
> Did you have gDesklets running before Fedora?  It could be an
> installation issue.  Installing gDesklets is pretty straight forward.=20
> However, IMHO the gDesklets sensors installation documentation is not
> all that clear.
>
>
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This is brobably a dump reply, but do you have your PKG_CONFIG_PATH
variable set to /usr/lib/pkgconfig and /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig? Also,
have you tried running pkg-config --list-all to see if they show up, and
what's missing?