Beyond Linux® From Scratch (System V Edition) - Version 9.1

Chapter 34. GNOME Applications

Evince-3.34.2

Introduction to Evince

Evince is a document viewer for multiple document formats. It supports PDF, Postscript, DjVu, TIFF and DVI. It is useful for viewing documents of various types using one simple application instead of the multiple document viewers that once existed on the GNOME Desktop.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-9.1 platform.

Package Information

Evince Dependencies

Required

adwaita-icon-theme-3.34.3, gsettings-desktop-schemas-3.34.0, GTK+-3.24.13, itstool-2.0.6, libxml2-2.9.10, and OpenJPEG-2.3.1

Recommended

gnome-keyring-3.34.0, gobject-introspection-1.62.0, libsecret-0.20.1, Nautilus-3.34.2 (to build the plugin), and Poppler-0.85.0

Optional

Cups-2.3.1 (to enable printing if support is built into GTK+ 3), gnome-desktop-3.34.4, gspell-1.8.3, gst-plugins-base-1.16.2, GTK-Doc-1.32, libgxps-0.3.1, LibTIFF-4.1.0, texlive-20190410 (or install-tl-unx), DjVuLibre, libspectre, Synctex, and t1lib

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

Installation of Evince

Install Evince by running the following commands: 

CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -I/opt/texlive/2019/include    " \
CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -I/opt/texlive/2019/include" \
./configure --prefix=/usr                         \
            --enable-introspection                \
            --without-gspell                      \
            --disable-static                      \
            --with-systemduserunitdir=no         &&
make

This package does not have a working testsuite.

Now, as the root user: 

make install
[Note]

Note

If you installed the package to your system using a "DESTDIR" method, /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/gschemas.compiled was not updated/created. Create (or update) the file using the following command as the root user: 

glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas

Command Explanations

CFLAGS="$CFLAGS ..." CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS ..." LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS ...": If TeXLive has been installed in /opt/texlive-2019 the configure script will find libkpathsea.so and enable the DVI backend, but without this addition the compile will fail because it cannot find the required headers. Adding this to a system where TeXLive has not been installed does not break the build.

--without-gspell: This switch turns off support for the spell checking plugin. Remove this if you have gspell installed.

--enable-introspection: By default, the Gobject Introspection support is turned off, even though that package is an expected component of the GNOME Desktop.

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

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

--disable-nautilus: This switch disables building the Nautilus Plugin. Use this switch if Nautilus is not installed.

--without-keyring: This switch disables the use of libsecret. Use this switch if libsecret is not installed.

Contents

Installed Programs: evince, evince-previewer, and evince-thumbnailer
Installed Libraries: libevdocument3.so, libevview3.so, and /usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-3.0/libevince-properties-page.so
Installed Directories: /usr/{include,lib,share}/evince, /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/{evince,libevdocument-3.0,libevview-3.0}, and /usr/share/help/*/evince

Short Descriptions

evince

is a multiple format document viewer.

evince-previewer

is an applicaton that implements the printing previewer.

evince-thumbnailer

is a simple program used to create thumbnail images of supported documents.

Last updated on 2020-02-27 13:05:33 -0800