Install Issues with 0.27.1

[Mark Wilkinson <wilkinson m btopenworld com>]

Hi to all on the list,

I've had a couple of issues installing garnome on my PC, so I figured 
this was the best place to try and get some help.  I did search the 
archives first, but didn't get any results returned.  :(

My first issue relates to libsmbclient, which is required by 
gnome-vfs-extras.  I read on a mailing list somewhere that it's usually 
enough to get a copy of libsmbclient.h into your /usr/include folder to 
stop garnome dropping out of the install script.  However, I've tried 
that and I was still getting an error reading:

cannot find '-lsmbclient.la'

So I found out which package libsmbclient was shipped with (Samba) and 
downloaded the Samba source to /usr/src.  I built Samba, making sure 
that I'd included the option to build the libsmbclient shared library in 
the configure command, and that the library files should be going into 
/usr/lib while the include files should be going into /usr/include.  I 
then checked the /usr/include and /usr/lib folders to see if anything 
had been installed, but there was still nothing relating to 'smbclient' 
or 'libsmbclient'.  I have tried three different releases of Samba:

2.0.3
2.2.8a and
3.0 RC4

none of which has given me any success.  (I have double-checked 
/usr/local/lib and /usr/local/include just in case...) Any help on this 
would be gratefully appreciated.


Because I'm a bit of a newbie to Linux in general and I couldn't figure 
out how to get around this problem elegantly, I took the bull in the 
china shop approach and redid the make install with the '-i' option to 
ignore errors.  This has built me a gnome system that starts up and 
seems to function ok, but there are issues with it.  The most obvious is 
the lack of icons.  Every icon is a picture of a blank piece of paper, 
even the trashcan.  Is this likely to be due to the gnome-vfs-extras 
issue or is something else borked?  Also no themes available at startup 
(is that just a case of downloading a separate package?)

Equally, I'm installing garnome to /opt/garnome because I want the 
finished product to be runnable by several users.  I downloaded and 
installed it as root, what permissions/ownership do I need to give to 
garnome to allow my trusted users access to garnome without introducing 
huge security holes in my system?

I know I'm asking a lot, I'd be grateful for any help at all on these, 
the libsmbclient issue in particular is beginning to bug me...

Thanks,

Mark