Google Gadgets for Linux provides a platform for running desktop gadgets under Linux, catering to the unique needs of Linux users. It's compatible with the gadgets written for Google Desktop for Windows as well as the Universal Gadgets on iGoogle. Following Linux norms, this project is open-sourced under the Apache License.
Installing Google Gadgets for linux in Fedora.
If you are using Fedora 8 and later versions, you need install following mandatory packages:
- gcc-c++
- zip
- flex
- desktop-file-utils
- shared-mime-info
- libtool-ltdl-devel
- zlib-devel
- libxml2-devel
- dbus-devel
- libX11-devel
- libXt-devel
- startup-notification-devel
- NetworkManager-develgstreamer-plugins-base-devel
- gstreamer-devel
- xulrunner-devel and xulrunner-devel-unstable (for Fedora 9 or above), or firefox-devel ( for Fedora 8 ) (Mandatory for GTK version, optional for Qt version)
If you want to use GUI and sidebar based on GTK library, you need following packages:
- gtk2-devel
- librsvg2-devel
- libcurl-devel (for Fedora 9 or above) or curl-devel ( for Fedora 8 )
If you want to use GUI based on QT library, you need following packages:
- qt-devel (for Fedora 9 or above) or qt4-devel ( for Fedora 8 )
If you want to build source code checked out from svn trunk, you also need following packages:
- autoconf
- automake
- libtool
You can use yum command to install these packages.
Now, we need to download it and make this 3 steps:
./configure
make
make install
And that's it! Look my screenshot:
Screenshot Google Gadgets running on linux (Fedora 10)
Bueno este es el metodo mas dificil de instalacion, pues si no tienes todos esos paquetes necesitarias hacer lo anterior con todos ellos a menos que encuentres los RPM, pero es posible instalar estos paquetes de manera mas automatica usando el instalador grafico YUMEX.
Puedes instalar yumex desde la terminal:
# yum install yumex
Luego te consigues el RPM del repositorio “livna” y lo instalas. Despues de esto solo abres YUMEX y sencillamente haces una busqueda y lo instalas…
ASI lo hice yo
I have installed google gadget with three command given above
./configure
make
make install
But i don’t get gadget on my fedora 10 desktop.
I am new linux user. Can you guide me how i can solve my problem
Thanks
–Vishnu