Beyond Linux From Scratch - Version 6.1

Chapter 30. GNOME Core Packages

GNOME Desktop-2.10.1

Introduction to GNOME Desktop

The GNOME Desktop package contains the gnome-about program, the libgnome-desktop-2 library and GNOME's core graphics files and icons.

Package Information

GNOME Desktop Dependencies

Required

libgnomeui-2.10.0 and ScrollKeeper-0.3.14

Recommended

startup-notification-0.8

Installation of GNOME Desktop

Install GNOME Desktop by running the following commands: 

./configure --prefix=`pkg-config --variable=prefix ORBit-2.0` \
    --sysconfdir=/etc/gnome --localstatedir=/var/lib &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Command Explanations

--sysconfdir=/etc/gnome: This switch puts configuration files in /etc/gnome instead of $GNOME_PREFIX/etc.

Contents

Installed Program: gnome-about
Installed Library: libgnome-desktop-2.[so,a]
Installed Directory: $GNOME_PREFIX/include/gnome-desktop-2.0, $GNOME_PREFIX/share/gnome, $GNOME_PREFIX/share/gnome-about, and $GNOME_PREFIX/share/omf

Short Descriptions

gnome-about

produces the about screen.

libgnome-desktop-2.[so,a]

contains APIs being tested for inclusion in libgnome or libgnomeui.

Last updated on 2005-08-01 13:29:19 -0600