I've recently downloaded g2ipmsg (IP Messenger for Ubuntu 11.10).
However – this comes not as an installable package as previous ubuntu versions.
Thus I think I need to compile it. This application needs gtk so I've installed libgtk2.0-dev
using Synaptic Package Manager.
Now when I run ./configure
command it gives me the following error.
checking for APPLET… configure: error: Package requirements (libpanelapplet-2.0) were >not met:
No package 'libpanelapplet-2.0' found
Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.
Alternatively, you may set the environment variables APPLET_CFLAGS and
APPLET_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config. See the pkg-config
man page for more details.
Where can I find the path for PKG_CONFIG_PATH?
This is what I have done so far:
I've installed libxml-parser-perl, libgnomeui-dev, gettext, intltool according to the post
Installing IP messenger on Ubuntu linux but could not find the package libpanel-applet2-dev.
Then I even tried to install libpanelappletmm-2.6-dev and libpanelappletmm-2.6-1c2 but could not find this packages
but still get the same error
configure: error: Package requirements (libpanelapplet-2.0) were not met
There are lot of problems with g2ipmsg in ubuntu, specially there are lot of problems during file transfer.
Instead of installing Ip messanger using wine or g2ipmsg use Iptux.
Its perfectly compatible with Ip Messanger.
Installing Iptux
sudo apt-get install iptux
Best Answer
The package
g2ipmsg
is available in the repositories - v0.9.6 for all versions of ubuntu except for oneiric. Thus to install in versions prior to oneiric or for 12.04 and above:g2ipmsg
However its not available in Oneiric (11.10) because it doesnt compile under oneiric due to the changes to Gnome-Panel and the dependency on the gnome-2 applet libraries.
You could compile and install to produce this result in gnome-classic (no-effects)
Note - when the application starts - it starts minimised to the gnome-panel. For some reason, in Unity, this application does not appear - probably the minimised application is not directly visible in the Unity panel.
To get the application to work under Unity you need to enable the old sys-tray:
Then logout and login before searching for g2ipmsg in Dash
I've compiled and added this to my PPA. If you wish to compile this yourself, then instructions are below.
Install from PPA
to run g2ipmsg
how to compile
Note - if you are compiling 64bit - then the package name will end in amd64.deb
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