I’m a former GNOME Ubuntu user, so I’m used to having the program checkgmail, which allows me to monitor my gmail inbox via an icon in the system tray. When I get an email, I could open it through the icon. I can’t seem to find anything like this in KDE openSUSE though. Does anyone have suggestions on a program to do this for me?
Thanks,
Dan
dbsoundman wrote:
Suse 11.0 x64, Kde 3.5.9, Opera 9.x weekly
Thanks! I wondered if I could install those…I wasn’t sure if I could easily install source files on openSUSE, but I checked the wiki and it explained. I’m installing the C components right now, and I’ll probably use checkinstall to do it so it’s easy to remove if needed. Basically the same, but you have to manually install the compilers…good deal. 
-Dan
You install all the development files for OpenSUSE through the YaST Package Manager. To do that, just open the YaST installer, and then change the list in the bottom-left to Patterns. Then in the left panel, there should be a pattern called Basic Development (or something similar to that). That will install all the basic development packages such as the C and C++ compilers, and the make development packages.
Hope that helps!
Thanks, I installed the development packages, but when I try to make the installation/compile, this is what I get:
an@linux-8amt:~> cd /home/dan/kcheckgmail/
dan@linux-8amt:~/kcheckgmail> sudo make -f Makefile.cvs
root's password:
This Makefile is only for the CVS repository
This will be deleted before making the distribution
./admin/cvs.sh: line 636: ./admin/detect-autoconf.pl: Permission denied
./admin/cvs.sh: line 33: --version: command not found
*** AUTOCONF NOT FOUND!.
*** KDE requires autoconf 2.53 or newer
make[1]: *** [cvs] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2
dan@linux-8amt:~/kcheckgmail> sudo ./configure
sudo: ./configure: command not found
What am I missing? I’m trying to install kcheckgmail…
Thanks,
Dan
On Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:16:04 GMT
dbsoundman <dbsoundman@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
>
> Thanks, I installed the development packages, but when I try to make
> the installation/compile, this is what I get:
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> an@linux-8amt:~> cd /home/dan/kcheckgmail/
> dan@linux-8amt:~/kcheckgmail> sudo make -f Makefile.cvs
> root’s password:
> This Makefile is only for the CVS repository
> This will be deleted before making the distribution
>
> ./admin/cvs.sh: line 636: ./admin/detect-autoconf.pl: Permission
> denied ./admin/cvs.sh: line 33: --version: command not found
> *** AUTOCONF NOT FOUND!.
> *** KDE requires autoconf 2.53 or newer
> make[1]: *** [cvs] Error 1
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> dan@linux-8amt:~/kcheckgmail> sudo ./configure
> sudo: ./configure: command not found
> --------------------
>
>
> What am I missing? I’m trying to install kcheckgmail…
>
> Thanks,
> Dan
>
>
Hi
Just FYI, to do ./configure and make commands you can run these as a
normal user. It’s only make install that needs to be run as root.
Check via yast that you have autoconf installed?
Else if you search here fo kcheckgmail there is an rpm made;
http://software.opensuse.org/search
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I do have autoconf installed, I just checked…
I would like to do this via compilation just so I know that it will work in the case that I have to do it again, so any ideas on what else I should check on?
-Dan
On Tue, 08 Jul 2008 01:16:04 GMT
dbsoundman <dbsoundman@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
>
> I do have autoconf installed, I just checked…
>
> I would like to do this via compilation just so I know that it will
> work in the case that I have to do it again, so any ideas on what else
> I should check on?
>
> -Dan
>
>
Hi
So which version did you download? This one?
http://gmail-notify.sourceforge.net/download.php
If not can your provide a download link so I can try on a vm here.
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On Tue, 08 Jul 2008 02:36:03 GMT
dbsoundman <dbsoundman@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
>
> This is the one I downloaded:
> ‘KCheckGMail KDE-Apps.org’
> (http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/KCheckGMail?content=57992)
>
> -Dan
>
>
Hi
I downloaded the file into a temp directory and issued the following
commands as a user;
tar zxvf kcheckgmail-0.5.7.4.tar.gz
cd kcheckgmail-0.5.7.4
…/configure
make
All completed fine once I installed the devel libraries for KDE.
Then issued;
sudo make install <entered the password>
Installed and runs fine.
Can you try the above method and see how you go?
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Umm… kcheckgmail has been under the kde:community repos for as long as I can remember (which would be about 3-4 months). Please search the build service if you can’t find something in your current repositories.
On Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:36:04 GMT
coomac <coomac@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
>
> Umm… kcheckgmail has been under the kde:community repos for as long
> as I can remember (which would be about 3-4 months). Please search the
> build service if you can’t find something in your current
> repositories.
>
>
> ‘Software.openSUSE.org’ (http://software.opensuse.org/search)
>
>
Hi
Already suggested to the OP, but he/she wished to try compiling from
source…
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I actually ended up using the repository. I tried what you posted about doing it from source, and it gave me an error about missing Qt libraries >=3.2 and <4.0, but I checked and they’re all installed as far as I could tell. So I tried the repository install and it works fine. Thanks for the help!
-Dan
On Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:26:03 GMT
dbsoundman <dbsoundman@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
>
> I actually ended up using the repository. I tried what you posted
> about doing it from source, and it gave me an error about missing Qt
> libraries >=3.2 and <4.0, but I checked and they’re all installed as
> far as I could tell. So I tried the repository install and it works
> fine. Thanks for the help!
>
> -Dan
>
>
Hi
When you get that error, generally you need the devel versions
installed. those files contain the headers etc.
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