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having failed to install a gnome extension from their website I looked for another way on Google. The guide I found was like:

sudo apt-get install gnome-common git clone git://git.gnome.org/gnome-shell-extensions cd gnome-shell-extensions ./autogen.sh –prefix=$HOME/.local – enable-extensions=”dock”

The last command failed with the following error:

./configure: line 4276: GLIB_GSETTINGS: command not found configure: error: invalid extension drop-down-terminal

Unfortunately I couldn't find anything helpful on Google this time.
How can I resolve this error?

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If I understand correctly, gnome guys introduced an m4 macro in recent versions of glib - GLIB_GSETTINGS and distribute it with glib sources - here it is in gsettings.m4: AC_DEFUN([GLIB_GSETTINGS]....

Your package of interest, gnome-extensions makes use of this macro at line 19 of configure.ac and tries to search for it in standard system locations. Probably, you don't have glib sources installed, so it can't find it.

In Debian gsettings.m4 comes in libglib2.0-dev package and is stored at /usr/share/aclocal/gsettings.m4. Install the dev package and build again.

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  • Thank you, it works now. On ubuntu the package is named libglib2.0-dev though Commented Oct 5, 2013 at 22:03
  • Oh,my mistake. libglib2.0-dev on Debian, too. Glad it helped (I guess, you posted this question on like 5 different fora, according to google?). Commented Oct 5, 2013 at 22:52
  • Here and on askubuntu. Both questions aren't very popular so I cross-posted :( Commented Oct 6, 2013 at 9:00

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