Build Gimmie from source (7.10 - 64bit)

Gimmie is an alternative Menu bar for your panel.

If you don't want to compile it. You can find it in synaptic package manager.
This will show you how to compile the latest version.



Before Installation.

First thing you need is to enable all the sources in your repository. You can do that by; System tab ---> Administration ---> Software Sources.
You also need to enable medibuntu which you can find here; http://www.medibuntu.org/

When that is done, open the terminal (Applications tab ---> Accessories ---> Terminal ).
To build Audacious from the source the right tools, libs and headers is needed, type this in the terminal;

• sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude safe-upgrade
• sudo aptitude install build-essential libtool
• sudo aptitude install intltool libexpat1-dev libgconf2-dev python2.5-dev libgnomecups1.0-dev python-gobject-dev python-gtk2-dev libgtk2.0-dev libdbus-1-dev libgnomevfs2-dev libgnome-dev libgnome-menu-dev python-gnome2-desktop-dev libwnck-dev gnome-applets-dev tomboy

Installation

• cd ~/Desktop
• wget http://www.beatniksoftware.com/gimmie/releases/gimmie-0.2.8.tar.gz
• tar zxfv gimmie-0.2.8.tar.gz
• cd gimmie-0.2.8
• ./configure
• make
• sudo checkinstall
• killall gnome-panel

Right click on the panel and choose "Add to panel". Now click on Gimmie.