CheckGmail is a nice Gmail system tray notifier. You can find an older version, 1.10.1, in the universe repository, but probably you want to run the latest one (1.12 as of now). Downloading and running the basic notifier is quite simple, just unpack the tar file and run the script.
If you want all the functionality, encryption of locally stored password and hyper links in message bodies, then you need to manually install a few libraries. Here are the steps for Ubuntu Feisty:
- Install Perl ExtUtils dependencies:
$ sudo apt-get install libextutils-depends-perl libextutils-pkgconfig-perl - Install Libsexy, including header file:
$ sudo apt-get install libsexy2 libsexy-dev
The header files will pull in many other libraries. - Install Gtk2-Sexy, the Perl bindings for Libsexy
$ sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'install Gtk2::Sexy' - Install Crypt:Simple:
$ sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'install Crypt::Simple'
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Great post - thanks. Sorted out my libsexy problems.
That didn't work for me :( If it doesn't for someone else, DO NOT remove what you installed. I did and it crashed GNOME or X, I never found out. I redirect you to the thread at Ubuntu Forums just in case: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=5797554#post5797554
Thank you for this guide. I had tried everything through CPAN.. This worked perfectly.
Ah, I was missing the ExtUtils dependencies. Thanks for posting this!
Very helpful, thanks.
Instead of doing "sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'install Crypt::Simple'" you could just do 'sudo apt-get -y install libcrypt-perl-simple'
Hi,
I thought I finally found the solution, but unfortunately I failed to install Gtk2::Sexy. I followed your advice, and the script runs a while, but then it aborts saying that the make test failed (/usr/bin/make).
Any suggestion welcome.
Arne
Hi,
I got the same error with Gtk2::Sexy and make test.
Do you find and answer ?
Buliwoof
Force it, worked for me ;)
sudo cpan
force install Gtk2::Sexy
exit
just to say thanks, rather many, many thanks
I get some failed assertion when the menu pops up =\
Thanks a lot for this post! That's exactly what I was searching for! :-)
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