[SOLVED] Why is xfce4-notes are so difficult to install

ineuw · 2023-02-02 21:53:45

I am using both Linux Mint Cinnamon 2.21 (LMC) and Linux Mint Debian 2.21 (LMDE).

In LMC Xfce4 components are available, but Xfce4-notes is not in their software list, but can be installed from the terminal.

I also installed LMDE hoping that a Debian rooted Linux Mint would be simpler and with less issues. But, it isn't. The software source lists every Xfce4 component except notes. It is not part of the Xfce4-goodies, either although it's so indicated.

Downloaded the Debian tarball, but I have no luck with tarballs. I got as far as

done % xf xfce4-notes-plugin-1.9.0.tar.bz2
done % cd xfce4-notes-plugin-1.9.0
done % ./configure

which generated the list below.

libxfce4util-1.0 is missing for this but it is installed as gir1.2-libxfce4util-1.0 - a Typelib file for libxfce4util according to Synaptic.

```
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking whether make supports nested variables... (cached) yes
checking for ld used by gcc... (cached) /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... (cached) yes
checking math.h usability... yes
checking math.h presence... yes
checking for math.h... yes
checking for X... libraries , headers
checking for gethostbyname... yes
checking for connect... yes
checking for remove... yes
checking for shmat... yes
checking for IceConnectionNumber in -lICE... yes
checking for main in -lX11... yes
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for glib-2.0 >= 2.30.0... 2.66.8
checking GLIB_CFLAGS... -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include
checking GLIB_LIBS... -lglib-2.0
checking for pkg-config... (cached) /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for gio-2.0 >= 2.30.0... 2.66.8
checking GIO_CFLAGS... -pthread -I/usr/include/libmount -I/usr/include/blkid -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include
checking GIO_LIBS... -lgio-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0
checking for pkg-config... (cached) /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for gtk+-3.0 >= 3.22.0... 3.24.24
checking GTK_CFLAGS... -pthread -I/usr/include/gtk-3.0 -I/usr/include/at-spi2-atk/2.0 -I/usr/include/at-spi-2.0 -I/usr/include/dbus-1.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dbus-1.0/include -I/usr/include/gtk-3.0 -I/usr/include/gio-unix-2.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/fribidi -I/usr/include/harfbuzz -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/uuid -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng16 -I/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 -I/usr/include/libmount -I/usr/include/blkid -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include
checking GTK_LIBS... -lgtk-3 -lgdk-3 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lharfbuzz -latk-1.0 -lcairo-gobject -lcairo -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lgio-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0
checking for pkg-config... (cached) /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for libxfce4util-1.0 >= 4.14.0... not found
*** The required package libxfce4util-1.0 was not found on your system.
*** Please install libxfce4util-1.0 (atleast version 4.14.0) 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.
ineuw@lmde21de:~/Desktop/xfce4-notes-plugin-1.9.0$

```

Last edited by ineuw (2023-02-04 14:05:54)

ToZ · 2023-02-03 01:03:16

Looks like you're missing the development libraries. In this case it would be something like "libxfce4util-dev" or "libxfce4util-1-dev" Look in your repositories for a package like this.

ineuw · 2023-02-03 18:54:23

ToZ wrote:

Looks like you're missing the development libraries. In this case it would be something like "libxfce4util-dev" or "libxfce4util-1-dev" Look in your repositories for a package like this.

This is related to xfce4 libraries in the Synaptic.

https://imagesharing.com//photo.php?s=7awfqt34

ToZ · 2023-02-03 23:45:10

"libxfce4util-dev" is the package you need installed to work around that issue. You may hit other similar messages, just make sure the proper "-dev" package is installed.

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#1 2023-02-02 21:53:45

[SOLVED] Why is xfce4-notes are so difficult to install

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