updating gnome

Hello Mike,

did you tried to update via synaptic? What is your version? Did you spend some thoughts about a whole update to feisty?

br
Mathias

I realized that I might have been asking the wrong question. What I really want to do is to customize my gui beyond the default options that ubuntu came with, and I guess that can be as simple as downloading more themes and icons. So now I have two different questions:

1.) How different is the latest version of GNOME ?

and

2.) I've been trying to install the <a href="http://code.google.com/p/avant-window-navigator/">avant window navigator</a> so that I can have a nifty Applications dock, but I keep running into problems.

The first recommendation for installation said to run and autogen command, but this is what happens when I run it:
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mike@mike-desktop:~/Desktop/avant-window-navigator-0.1.1$ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr && make && make install
You need to install the gnome-common module and make
sure the gnome-autogen.sh script is in your $PATH.
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I have no idea what the gnome-common module or how to make sure the gnome-autogen.sh script is in my $PATH.

The second option said to start by configuring the package, but when I did that I got this:

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mike@mike-desktop:~/Desktop/avant-window-navigator-0.1.1$ ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... no
checking how to create a ustar tar archive... gnutar
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for style of include used by make... none
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl... no
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log' for more details.
mike@mike-desktop:~/Desktop/avant-window-navigator-0.1.1$
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and I don't know what that means either...
if you have the patience to explain it to me I'd be most greatful.

mike

Hello Mike,
okay i will download the file and check it out. The error message means that you have no compiler installed so the command configure and later make and make install could not execute to fix this problem install gcc (the gnu c compiler) to do this use synaptic or in a bash sudo apt-get install gcc
br
Mathias

Ok, I installed the GCC but, it still doesn't want to run the make and make install commands. When I run ./configure , this is what happens:

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mike@mike-desktop:~/Desktop/avant-window-navigator-0.1.1$ ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... no
checking how to create a ustar tar archive... gnutar
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for style of include used by make... none
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
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Try the following from a console:

sudo apt-get install build-essential

Then try ./configure again and see if it works.

well, I ran sudo apt-get install build-essential and it worked! thank you!
but... when I tried ./configure I still ran into errors:
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checking for intltool >= 0.34... 0.35.0 found
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is require d for intltool
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Hello,

try this
sudo apt-get install libxml-parser-perl
br
Mathias