Compiling Software from Source, Part X

Compiling Software from Source, Part X

So now I finally have gnome-desktop compiled and installed. That
doesn’t mean that I have a fully working GUI, however. There’s the
panel, themes, utilities… all I have to do is look through my
GNOME source directory to see that not even half of the files I
downloaded are decompressed yet. Lots more work ahead! Think I’ll
work on metacity, the default window manager next:

bunzip2 metacity[TAB]
tar xvf metacity[TAB]
cd metacity[TAB]
./configure
make
make install

That went so easily, it was almost boring. Next I’ll add gnome-panel, except ./configure
dies on libwnck, which I haven’t installed yet. The library
configures with no problem, and soon I’ve got it installed and can
go back to gnome-panel, which now decides to cooperate. Next it’s
gnome-session, then gnome-utils, control-center, gnome-media…
oh, that requires gstreamer.

I get gstreamer compiled and installed just fine, but when I
return to gnome-media, it can’t find gstreamer’s .pc file. It
says:

<br /> checking for gstreamer-0.6 >= 0.5.2 gstreamer-libs-0.6 >= 0.5.2<br /> libgnomeui-2.0 >= 1.102.0… Package gstreamer-libs-0.6 was not found in the pkg-config search path.<br /> Perhaps you should add the directory containing ‘gstreamer-libs-0.6.pc’<br /> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable<br /> No package ‘gstreamer-libs-0.6′ found<br /> checking for gstreamer-0.5 >= 0.5.2 gstreamer-libs-0.5 >= 0.5.2<br /> libgnomeui-2.0 >= 1.102.0… Package gstreamer-0.5 was not found in the pkg-config search path.<br /> Perhaps you should add the directory containing ‘gstreamer-0.5.pc’<br /> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable<br /> No package ‘gstreamer-0.5′ found<br /> configure: error: you need GStreamer installed<br />

Ah, another fun one. Guess I won’t be done this week!

Next week: The saga continues.