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Maybe a Gnome shell like dashboard for Xfce
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Can't install due to libwnck-3.0 not found #206

Open eldarj opened 1 year ago

eldarj commented 1 year ago

Upon trying to install this plugin, I'm getting the following

*** The required package libwnck-3.0 was not found on your system.
*** Please install libwnck-3.0 (atleast version 3.0) or adjust
*** the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
*** installed the package in a nonstandard prefix so that
*** pkg-config is able to find it.

Even though I have libwnck-3.0

What is the issue here? I'm running Xubuntu LTS

gmc-holle commented 1 year ago

Do you have the development package of libwnck-3.0 installed? It should be called "libwnck-3.0-dev".

eldarj commented 1 year ago

I cannot find that package 

E: Unable to locate package libwnck-3.0-dev
E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'libwnck-3.0-dev'

From what I've seen it's not in the LTS repos? When was it lates present?

nikrtyd commented 1 year ago

@eldarj, Sorry for the late reply. The package name is libwnck-3-dev in Debian or Ubuntu. Note that after libwnck, you'll need to also download libgarcon, libxfconf and several other libs. The full command to download everything via apt will be:

sudo apt install libwnck-3-dev libgarcon-1-dev libxfconf-0-dev libxfce4util-dev libxfce4ui-2-dev libclutter-1.0-dev

For apt-based distros, the general rule of thumb is to grab the name of a required package, add lib if it isn't there, and to add -dev at the end if it doesn't exist. So, for example, clutter-1.0 becomes libclutter-1-dev and so on. Sometimes it will require you to strip any dot-releases, to make it look like libclutter-1-dev instead of libclutter-1.0-dev, so check that out as well.