Strangest thing. I can't run $ gdesklets shell through the terminal, I get "ORBit...missing" regardless of what I do. But $gdesklets to bring up the gnome interface works fine. Mysterious, but my desktop is halfway back to functional again. Thanks for all your help. -p. On 2/1/06, The Wandering Dru <dru at druswanderings.net> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Pete Daniels wrote: > > > That got me there, thanks! Now, alas, I have new problem. I compiled > > successfully, but when I try to run > > $ gdesklets shell > > I get this: > > > > -- > > You're running gDesklets for the first time. > > gDesklets will start a requirements check now... > > > > Checking requirements: > > - sys ... found > > - xml.parsers.expat ... found > > - xml.sax ... found > > - gtk ... found > > - ORBit ... missing > > Version check failed. > > > > ORBit python bindings (pyorbit) version == 2.0.1 are required. > > > <snip> > > > > Which is odd, because I do have pyorbit installed, it's a dependency of > > gdesklets. > > > > Not real sure what to tell you here. Just for funsies, I compiled and > installed to my local home directory(also a ubuntu breezy system). It > worked without a hitch. > > A "dpkg -l *orbit*" tells me the following are installed: > > ii liborbit2 2.12.4-0ubuntu1 > ii liborbit2-dev 2.12.4-0ubuntu1 > ii python-pyorbit 2.0.1-2ubuntu3 > ii python2.4-pyorbit 2.0.1-2ubuntu3 > > - -- > The Wandering Dru GnuPG Key: 0x506A915F > http://www.druswanderings.net > > Get nifty TCLUG merchandise at the TCLUG Store! > http://www.cafeshops.com/tclug > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (MingW32) > > iD8DBQFD4MZziwhv4FBqkV8RAhrLAKCUTe0a2/p0O43DndfjIyMH9syRtACgws6c > q5qOKq1PUV4SfS9IkBqDZSA= > =I4pK > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20060203/8b133118/attachment-0001.htm