[NTLUG:Discuss] i8krellm plugin issue - SuSE 11.0

[Stephen Davidson]

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Greetings.

Have a Dell Latitude, which while older, is still perfectly capable of
many tasks, including for Development.  (Pentium IV - 2.4Ghz).  I used
to be able to find the components for i8k & gkrellm as RPMs, so I could
just install and go.  Now, upgrading to SuSE 11.0, I find that this is
no longer possible.  Did a bunch of digging,  and eventually found the
i8k stuff.  Installed it, and to my surprise, had to configure as a
daemon rather than a plugin for gkrellm.  Did some more digging, and
eventually found the source code for i8krellm -- but no rpms.  So, try
to follow the instructions to compile (keep in mind, I am a Java Coder,
NOT a C-Coder), and get the following;

Package gtk+-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gtk+-2.0.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'gtk+-2.0' found
In file included from ./gkrellm2/gkrellm.h:41,
                 from i8krellm.c:46:
./gkrellm2/log.h:38:18: error: glib.h: No such file or directory
In file included from ./gkrellm2/gkrellm.h:41,
                 from i8krellm.c:46:
./gkrellm2/log.h:46: error: expected ?)? before ?debug_level?
In file included from i8krellm.c:46:
./gkrellm2/gkrellm.h:47:21: error: gtk/gtk.h: No such file or directory
In file included from i8krellm.c:46:
./gkrellm2/gkrellm.h:209: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list
before ?gfloat?
./gkrellm2/gkrellm.h:233: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list
before ?PangoFontDescription?
./gkrellm2/gkrellm.h:246: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list
before ?gchar?
./gkrellm2/gkrellm.h:280: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list
before ?GdkPixmap?
./gkrellm2/gkrellm.h:314: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list
before ?gchar?

Ok, so obviously, have some kind of missing library.  Tried checking to
see if gtk+ was installed, and if so, what version.  Apparently not a
separate RPM in SuSE?  As this is a laptop (and one with a broken Dell
Bios at that), I really do need the i8krellm plugin working.  So, how do
I go address this?  (Preferrably w/o having to spend the next 3-weeks
learning a bunch of new modules, components, and ways to program?)

Regards,
Steve

(PS>I am a power end user for Linux and associated technologies, NOT a
Linux coder!)


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