I have tried to install AWN for a month now, on 3 different 11.2 installations and kde and gnome, and would really like to know why I can’t install it. I have tried:
packman 1-click
packman individual package installations
rpm installation
and I keep getting these errors
libawn1>=0.2.6 needed by avant-window-navigator-0.2.6-6.45.x86_64
libpython2.5.so.1.0()(64bit) needed by libawn1-0.2.6-6.45.x86_64
and believe me I have tried to find these and have tried even similar looking things, no luck
I guess that is my basic problem. A few points if I may, though first I sincerely want to thank you for reading and posting as that gives me optimism, and these quick replies are truly the biggest reason I have decided to stick with Suse,…
First, I would really like to find out how to do this as opposed to why I can’t. (though the latter is better than nothing)
2nd, I am sure for most advanced linux distro there must be a solution for the top dock available, and that others have dealt with this.
3rd, Why isn’t 11.2 backward compatible? This is TOTALLY fambouzalling me as in Ubuntu I could use any earlier program that worked in any earlier distro!
Hi
If you ask the packman packagers to build it for 11.2 I’m sure they
will.
Generally something like a noarch rpm or python/perl type
applications would probably work fine. However there are many changes a
later gcc, library updates and the general changes (package renaming is
one) and especially for KDE4. A lot of this is detailed in Release
Notes.
You could also download the src rpm’s and possibly rebuild them, but
may run into compile issues.
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.27.42-0.1-default
up 13 days 5:51, 6 users, load average: 0.10, 0.07, 0.08
GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - CUDA Driver Version: 190.18
1/ w.r.t " If you ask the packman packagers to build it for 11.2 I’m sure they will."
I looked into there website and couldn’t find a way to ask, could you tell me more specifically how to ask?
2/ w.r.t “Generally something like a noarch rpm or python/perl type
applications would probably work fine.”
"
Cool, I did not even know what the noarch significance was, thanks, still learning the basics!!
3/ w.r.t. “You could also download the src rpm’s and possibly rebuild them, but may run into compile issues.”
I will give it a try, and if you could direct me to a general search site for source rpm downloads I would appreciate it (if it exists)
and on another note i will be aawy from the keyboard as I am reinstalling openSuse yet again as I removed all my KDE (giving up on a 3 week attempt to like it),
and if a can’t get a good dock for openSuse, I will be very sad to say, I will be giving up on openSuse for a while!!! Arghhhhhhhh1, and I REALLY don’t want to!
Hi
You can download the src rpms here, it also has the packager to whom
you can send an email (In the ‘Other’ part).
The other place is #packman on IRC.
noarch means it shouldn’t contain any library files, so arch(32/64bit)
independent, it may however require later versions on things like
python/perl etc to install or run.
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.27.42-0.1-default
up 13 days 7:28, 6 users, load average: 0.24, 0.15, 0.14
GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - CUDA Driver Version: 190.18
Thanks, that’s what I thought the noarch meant, good to have it confirmed.
On a completely different idea…does anyone know where the library of all my saved words (dictionary modifications) is stored?? It is a pain reteaching my dictionary!
Why the reinstall? If you don’t like KDE, and assuming you haven’t totally screwed up your installation, just install Gnome, Xfce or whatever and (if you insist) uninstall KDE.
The reinstall was a quicker solution to odd things not working (tomboy and openoffice to name a few), and at the very least … peace of mind that I have a clean install of gnome.
Refreshing to be back.
and of course my notes are back, as well as openOffice, so at least I can put my wifi code in.
OK Please…any suggestions… I have installed all the dependencies in this matrix http://wiki.awn-project.org/Dependency_Matrix
and tried to compile it and got this error, and don’t know how to interpolate it???
checking for gtkdoc-check… /usr/bin/gtkdoc-check
checking for python… /usr/bin/python
checking for a version of Python >= 2.1.0… yes
checking for a version of Python >= 2.3.5… yes
checking for the distutils Python package… yes
checking for Python include path… -I/usr/include/python2.6
checking for Python library path… -L/usr/lib64/python2.6 -lpython2.6
checking for Python site-packages path… ${exec_prefix}/lib/python2.6/site-packages
checking for Python platform-specific site-packages path… ${exec_prefix}/lib64/python2.6/site-packages
checking python extra libraries… -lpthread -ldl -lutil
checking python extra linking flags… -Xlinker -export-dynamic
checking consistency of all components of python development environment… no
configure: error:
Could not link test program to Python. Maybe the main Python library has been
installed in some non-standard library path. If so, pass it to configure,
via the LDFLAGS environment variable.
Example: ./configure LDFLAGS="-L/usr/non-standard-path/python/lib"
ERROR!
You probably have to install the development version of the Python package
for your distribution. The exact name of this package varies among them.
First, I would like to thank malcolmlewis so much for your efforts.
I had Cairo-Dock installed with a pre problem of launchers not attaching to the dock mysteriously, solved. I had given up on AWN after trying yet again to build it.
After reading the last posts I tried even one more time to build them, (just to try to see if I could build something in openSuse with normal troubleshooting), but it came up with the same python problems.
Any way I just finished a successful 1-click awn install, almost hoping I wouldn’y like it as much as Cairo but AWN is back up to the top of my favorite docks. It just looks so cleen, easily configurable, and functional.
Thanks … 1 more thing to tick off the list … now just my tv tuner card (but that’s a linux problem not Suse’s)
Trying a trick on another thread to mark a thread as solved, we’ll see if it works.
idea from Knurpght
[SOLVED]: How can I mark a thread SOLVED!?!
Knurpht wrote:
> The only way is removing the “Re:” and replace it by “SOLVED”. A bit
> harder when, like yours, thread title is too long.
I’ve tried everythinggggg. The one click install isnt working. Running the rpm isn’t working. I don’t really understand the matrix. I’m a linux newbie!! Anyone???
Hello to everyone.
I just got my new HP Probook 4320s with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP1 preinstelled. Before I was Ubuntu user, and now SUSE is a little bit strange to me. I have tried installing awn few times but it goes wrong when i try to start avant-window-navigator:
