Google Gadgets for linux

I recently try to installed google gadgets for linux in my ubuntu 8.04 machine, well it was rather hard because of the dependencies it requires. But I already found the solution for the problem. And now I am gonna tell you how to solve that.

firstly this solutions were applied for ubuntu 8.04 hardy heron and as for any other distro there may be some adjustment that you gonna have to do.

install all the library that was needed

root@jacobian-HP:/home/jacobian/Documents/google-gadgets-for-linux-0.9.3# sudo apt-get -y install libtool automake autoconf libxul-dev libghc6-mozembed-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev libxml2-dev zlib1g-dev xulrunner libgtk2.0-dev libcairo2-dev libdbus-1-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev libgstreamer0.10-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev libqt4-dev build-essential spidermonkey-bin libmozjs-dev libqtwebkit-dev

after you already installed all the packages above now its time for you to download google gadgets for linux here

and then you have to compile it

root@jacobian-HP:/home/jacobian/Documents/google-gadgets-for-linux-0.9.3# ./configure –prefix=/usr

then do this

root@jacobian-HP:/home/jacobian/Documents/google-gadgets-for-linux-0.9.3# make

and finally

root@jacobian-HP:/home/jacobian/Documents/google-gadgets-for-linux-0.9.3# sudo make install

after you had succesfully installed google gadgets, you can run it by pressing alt+F2 then type  ggl-gtk

then there will be a new windows that pop up. Here is the screenshot of it. But there is one problem though, I seem cannot add the gadgets as it always show the message that it is updating gadget data. I wonder why, maybe you know the solutions and have the time to tell me what I have done wrong. Well then, I am gonna try to figure out what happen. Meanwhile try to enjoy your new google gadgets for linux.

well I already found the solution of the problem, firstly you have to run ggl-qt by pressing alt+F2 then let it load all the gadgets and then try to run ggl-gtk by pressing alt+F2. and then you will see all the gadgets like the screenshot below.