Gnome desktop config editor - command not found

[doktor5000]

I installed Mag3 this week, and so far, I'm impressed. I do have an operator question or bug depending.
I'm running Gnome 3.

When I click on my name on the top bar, and then SettingsCenter, I get a menu of five choices:
Advanced Settings, Desktop Config Editor, Gnome Config Editor, Session Properties, and
Extensions Preferences. If I click on Desktop Config Editor, I get an error message:

Execution of 'dconf-editor' failed: Command not found.

I get a similar error for Gnome Config Editor: 'gconf-editor' failed: Command not found.

If I try to run gconf or gconf-editor in a terminal as root or user, I get the same error:
command not found. If I run dconf, the command is there and asks for an option, but it won't
run from the menu. How do I get these commands to run?

Thanks in advance.

[ghmitch]

What is the output of:

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rpm -q dconf-editor gconf-editor



???

[doktor5000]

Which installation media did you use, and which packages are being offered to you when you do the following as root:

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urpmi task-gnome

[doktor5000]

Thank you for your prompt response! As root in a terminal running the above
suggestions, I get...

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[myusername@mageia ~]$ su
Password:
[root@mageia myusername]# rpm -q dconf-editor gconf-editor
package dconf-editor is not installed
package gconf-editor is not installed

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[root@mageia myusername]# urpmi task-gnome
In order to satisfy the 'typelib(ClutterGst)' dependency, one of the following packages is needed:
 1- lib64clutter-gst-gir2.0-2.0.0-1.mga3.x86_64: GObject Introspection interface description for clutter-gst2 (to install)
 2- lib64clutter-gst-gir1.0-1.6.0-3.mga3.x86_64: GObject Introspection interface description for clutter-gst (to install)
What is your choice? (1-2)

I installed Mag3 from the 64-bit classic installer DVD downloaded from the main web site. The SHA checksum matched
that given. These results lead to two questions:

1.) Which version of lib64clutter-gst-gir is appropriate for Mag3?

2.) Can I install dconf-editor and gconf-editor using yum-install? I couldn't find these packages in the
Mageia repositories.

Again, thanks for your time and attention.

[doktor5000]

1.) Which version of lib64clutter-gst-gir is appropriate for Mag3?

2.) Can I install dconf-editor and gconf-editor using yum-install? I couldn't find these packages in the
Mageia repositories.

1. Just press enter, and use the default.

2. No, Mageia doesn't use yum, it uses urpmi. Also, how did you search for those packages?

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[doktor5000@Mageia3 ~]$ sudo urpmi dconf-editor gconf-editor
Packages dconf-editor-0.14.1-2.mga3.x86_64, gconf-editor-3.0.1-2.mga3.x86_64 are already installed

[wmichaelb]

I searched for gconf-editor and dconf-editor using the Mageia graphical package manager.
I found no hits.

I did complete the install of lib64clutter-gst-gir2 using the default, and logged out and back in.
I still got the same error messages. So I bit the bullet and rebooted, and now both gconf-editor
and dconf-editor work. The lib64clutter-gst-gir2 install added 270+ MB of software to the disk.
I would guess that those packages aren't included with a normal install because the average
user wouldn't dig that far into the configuration.

Thanks so much for your help!

[ghmitch]

Make sure you have added online sources to your graphical package manager. The gconf-editor and dconf-editor packages should have shown up in the GUI search. They would obviously have to be somewhere in the dependency tree of task-gnome. In any case, your problem is now fixed and that is the important thing. PLEASE mark it as "SOLVED" be editing the subject of your VERY FIRST post in the thread. - George

[isadora]