Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 7.8

Chapter 35. GNOME Applications

Seahorse-3.16.0

Introduction to Seahorse

Seahorse is a graphical interface for managing and using encryption keys. Currently it supports PGP keys (using GPG/GPGME) and SSH keys.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Seahorse Dependencies

Required

Gcr-3.16.0, GPGME-1.6.0, GnuPG-2.1.7, Itstool-2.0.2, and libsecret-0.18.3

Recommended

libsoup-2.50.0, OpenSSH-7.1p1 (for managing SSH keys) and Vala-0.28.1

Optional

Avahi-0.6.31 and OpenLDAP-2.4.42

Runtime Dependency

gnome-keyring-3.16.0

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/seahorse

Installation of Seahorse

Install Seahorse by running the following commands: 

./configure --prefix=/usr  &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Contents

Installed Program: seahorse
Installed Libraries: None
Installed Directories: /usr/lib/seahorse, /usr/share/help/*/seahorse, and /usr/share/seahorse

Short Descriptions

seahorse

is the graphical interface for managing and using encryption keys.

Last updated on 2015-09-27 14:04:27 -0700