Comments on SkyEye: Howto Install Docky on Fedora

@Cibeles: Please see my new blogpost new blog post.

Thanks for your great work, but I'm trying to ...

2010-11-20T06:30:47.524+05:30

Thanks for your great work, but I'm trying to install it on a Fedora 14 and I've got the following error on dbus:
configure: error: Package requirements (dbus-sharp-1.0 >= 0.7) were not met:

No package 'dbus-sharp-1.0' found

Even I've installed it from repos, it is a lower version:
[root@fetido docky]# yum info dbus-sharp
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
Installed Packages
Name : dbus-sharp
Arch : x86_64
Version : 0.63
Release : 14.fc13

Do you know how can i solve this?

Many thanks in advance.

I'm on Fedora 14 now but I am sure that the on...

2010-11-10T19:31:15.749+05:30

I'm on Fedora 14 now but I am sure that the only thing I had to compile was Docky itself.

I just checked the F13 RPMFusion repository and it wasn't there. My bad.

Maybe it was from the fedora updates repository and not RPMFusion. I posted the message before fedora 14 and I was not using rawhide...

I've written a new post on how to get Ducky ru...

2010-11-07T23:10:22.741+05:30

I've written a new post on how to get Ducky running under Fedora 14. You can see it at: http://gaveen.owain.org/2010/11/howto-install-docky-on-fedora-14.html

@TrickyHarry: I'm really glad to hear that you had used my guide to install Docky on F13. However things are a little different with F14. Hope my new post helps you.

One issue may be the version of gio-sharp. The cu...

2010-11-07T04:57:37.636+05:30

One issue may be the version of gio-sharp.

The current build error:-
** (/usr/local/lib/docky/Docky.exe:11818): WARNING **: The following assembly referenced from /usr/local/lib/docky/Docky.exe could not be loaded:
Assembly: gio-sharp (assemblyref_index=10)
Version: 2.14.0.0
Public Key: 35e10195dab3c99f
The assembly was not found in the Global Assembly Cache, a path listed in the MONO_PATH environment variable, or in the location of the executing assembly (/usr/local/lib/docky/).

** (/usr/local/lib/docky/Docky.exe:11818): WARNING **: Could not load file or assembly 'gio-sharp, Version=2.14.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=35e10195dab3c99f' or one of its dependencies.

Unhandled Exception: System.TypeLoadException: A type load exception has occurred.

From the Fedora build:-
rpm -qa | grep gio-sharp
gio-sharp-0.2-2.fc14.x86_64

Any suggestions ?

I have followed your blog and have sucessfully ins...

2010-11-07T04:16:40.293+05:30

I have followed your blog and have sucessfully installed Docky on Fedora 13 some months ago - and I have used it every day and it has been my #1 utility.

I have now upgraded to Fedora 14 and Docky is now broken. I have re-ran "make clean", auto-config and make install.

Now Docky is displayed, with the with of two helpers - rather than the correct width - I cannot see all the helpers.

@Marc: Did you really install from RPMFusion? I...

2010-11-02T09:58:58.001+05:30

@Marc: Did you really install from RPMFusion? I'm pretty sure I didn't find gio-sharp in rpmfusion-* repos, at least not in F13 i386 repos. And I still don't see it there. Maybe I'm missing something.

Luckily gio-sharp is available in F14 repos which is due to be released in a few hours. If you'd like to use the package in F13 before that, you can install it from "Rawhide" (which will become F14 repos in a few hours time).

gio-sharp is available in the RPMFusion repository...

2010-11-02T08:44:50.387+05:30

gio-sharp is available in the RPMFusion repository.

The official guide now mentions that you need to install gio-sharp package from source. It's a good thing they've put it there.

@Sanjay: Docky is not available in Fedora official repos (and nor in the Package DB or the Build System) and RPMFusion repos as of 14 September 2010. That's why I wrote this guide to help obtain the source code, compile it and install it in your system. It's inconvenient but it's probably the most trustworthy way.

However if you are not willing to put up with doing this manually, then you can try your luck with Googling. I see there are some unofficial (i.e., not upstream or Fedora & RPMFusion) RPM packages out there. You can try but YMMV depending on how well they are made and maintained.

I also hope that someone starts packaging and maintaining it for Fedora. But until such a time those are your immediate options.

wat do i hav to do to install docky on fedora do i...

2010-09-13T03:56:04.063+05:30

wat do i hav to do to install docky on fedora do i have to install certain packages

i just recently installed fedora 13 on my laptop a...

2010-09-13T03:55:33.442+05:30

i just recently installed fedora 13 on my laptop and before i was running ubuntu 10. ubuntu was ok but i like fedora much more so im going to stick with it but i really want to install docky or something like it on fedora. its really easy to do it on ubuntu but its a bit harder on fedora could u please help me out i would really apprciate it. Thanx

hi i just installed fedora 13 on my laptop and its...

2010-09-13T03:52:30.207+05:30

hi i just installed fedora 13 on my laptop and its great so far but before i installed fedora i had ubuntu and ubuntu had docky. i didnt like ubuntu very much so i installed fedora it works perfectly but i really want to have docky on it. Could you tell me how to do it. am i supposed to install certain packages.

@Fred: Glad I could help. :)

2010-09-05T21:13:56.651+05:30

@Fred: Glad I could help. :)

It works now. Thank you Gaveen!

2010-09-05T21:02:35.323+05:30

It works now. Thank you Gaveen!

@Fred: Hi, I'm not sure what exactly is the pr...

2010-09-05T19:22:01.962+05:30

@Fred: Hi, I'm not sure what exactly is the problem. But there are workarounds you can try.

It seems like the gio-sharp repo on gitorious isn't maintained anymore. The last changes on master is a few months old.

Luckily if you Google you get a couple of more places with the gio-sharp sources. As I said before I'm not keeping close tab on Mono development and I don't know which is the blessed repo. So I'm going to just pick the GitHub one.

In the step (i.e, Step 2) where you clone gio-sharp repo, use the GitHub version instead of Gitorious one. It seems to be kept updated.

Eg:
$ git clone git://github.com/mono/gio-sharp.git gio-sharp
Or,
$ git clone http://github.com/mono/gio-sharp.git gio-sharp

Then go ahead with the rest of the steps. This should hopefully help.

It's not working for me. It complains: check...

2010-09-05T12:51:03.119+05:30

It's not working for me. It complains:

checking for GIO_SHARP... configure: error: Package requirements (gio-sharp-2.0 >= 2.22.2) were not met:

Requested 'gio-sharp-2.0 >= 2.22.2' but version of GIO is 2.22

It looks like it needs 2.22.2 but i can't fond it.

Thanks a lot. =)

2010-08-15T13:22:05.772+05:30

Thanks a lot. =)

@industry: Glad to know it helped. :)

2010-08-09T20:52:19.775+05:30

@industry: Glad to know it helped. :)

Just great. I made it, it works even on 64bit.

2010-08-09T14:08:09.658+05:30

Just great. I made it, it works even on 64bit.

2010-08-09T14:07:35.062+05:30

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@ben: Yes. If it wasn't obvious for me, chance...

2010-07-23T08:46:18.049+05:30

@ben: Yes. If it wasn't obvious for me, chances are someone might find it useful. :)

Thanks for the post. None of this was at all obvio...

2010-07-23T02:02:45.265+05:30

Thanks for the post. None of this was at all obvious so it's always nice to find someone has clearly written it up. :)

@Lefu: I wrote the post because the official guide...

2010-07-17T03:30:48.313+05:30

@Lefu: I wrote the post because the official guide didn't address a few small quirks. Glad to know it helped. :)

hi Gaveen, Man thanx, your post was easy to follow...

2010-07-16T18:52:56.116+05:30

hi Gaveen, Man thanx, your post was easy to follow for the second time, I guess the first time(about a week ago) I did not see a lot and follow correctly but now I just revisited it again and it worked just like you prescribed thanx.

I use FC13 64 bit.
:)

:) If you haven't tried yet, try SSH, Files &a...

2010-06-20T19:12:47.447+05:30

:) If you haven't tried yet, try SSH, Files & Directories, Services plugins. Plus the IM/Skype integrations are also cool.