gnome-calculator-3.18.3

Introduction to GNOME Calculator

GNOME Calculator is a powerful graphical calculator with financial, logical and scientific modes. It uses a multiple precision package to do its arithmetic to give a high degree of accuracy.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.9 platform.

Package Information

GNOME Calculator Dependencies

Required

GTK+-3.18.7 and Itstool-2.0.2

Recommended

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gnome-calculator

Installation of GNOME Calculator

Install GNOME Calculator by running the following commands:

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

To test the results, issue: make check. In 32bit systems, Number.float and Number.double tests might fail due to floating point round off errors, most probably in 32 bit systems.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanation

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Contents

Installed Programs: gcalccmd and gnome-calculator
Installed Library: libcalculator.so
Installed Directories: /usr/{lib,share/help/*}/gnome-calculator

Short Descriptions

gnome-calculator

is the official calculator of the GNOME Desktop.

gcalccmd

is a command line version of gnome-calculator.

Last updated on 2016-02-26 19:14:42 -0800