While much derided in the community, Ubuntu Software Centre at least simplifies things somewhat for the user. I'm trying and failing to install v1.6.0 using generic "./configure make install" instructions, as well as extra ones from here (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/xfce/xfce4-power-manager.html) and tips from here (https://askubuntu.com/questions/324261/configure-no-such-file-or-directory-even-after-installing-build-essentials) and here (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CompilingEasyHowTo) and getting nowhere. I've downloaded the tarball to downloads and unpacked it to /home/me/xfce4-power-manager-1.6.0/ I've opened a terminal in that folder and tried: ./configure ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc && make ./configure --prefix=/home/simon/xfce4-power-manager-1.6.0 --sysconfdir=/etc && make ./configure --prefix=/xfce4-power-manager-1.6.0 --sysconfdir=/etc && make and get: bash: ./configure: No such file or directory ./configure.ac.in --prefix=/home/simon/xfce4-power-manager-1.6.0 --sysconfdir=/etc && make permission denied sudo ./configure.ac.in --prefix=/home/simon/xfce4-power-manager-1.6.0 --sysconfdir=/etc && make sudo: ./configure.ac.in: command not found Please could someone A. Let me know how one installs this program B. Put that info in the README file Thanks Additionally a PPA for this program would be super useful. Cheers.
install xfce4-dev-tools gtk+-3.0 => 3.14.0 not found [but 3.16.7-0ubuntu3.3 installed] sudo apt-get install build-essential libgtk-3-dev checking for libxfconf-0 >= 4.12.0... not found [but 4.12.0-2 installed] sudo apt-get install build-essential libxfconf-0-dev libxfce4ui-2 >= 4.12.0... not found [but 4.12.1-2 installed] sudo apt-get install build-essential libxfce4ui-2-dev upower-glib >= 0.99.0... not found [not install. apt-get unable to locate. upower installed sudo apt-get install build-essential libupower-glib-dev worked make worked make install recipes failed sudo make install looks like everything worked Please could these instructions be included in the readme for the benefit of future users? Cheers
xfce4-power-manager 1.6.0 should be available in a PPA, e.g. this one: https://launchpad.net/~xubuntu-dev/+archive/ubuntu/ppa Also, please don't use ./configure directly (especially not with sudo!), use ./autogen.sh instead. You really shouldn't have to build from source and if you want to do that, it's partly documented here: https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/building Further examples can be found here: https://github.com/schuellerf/xfce-test/blob/master/Dockerfile Finally: Install instructions are usually distro specific, so that would make for a very long README file (plus they would constantly have to be updated because distros change). This means the READMEs of the released stuff would often not be up-to-date and that would be even more misleading. Cheers
Also: sudo apt-get build-dep xfce4-power-manager is quite useful in general.