The Balsa package contains a GNOME-2 based mail client.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-10.1 platform.
Download (HTTP): https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/balsa-2.6.2.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 2361369eb566e53ddc2f6afa34eb7a9d
Download size: 4.4 MB
Estimated disk space required: 66 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU (Using parallelism=4)
Aspell-0.60.8, enchant-2.2.15, GMime-3.2.7, GPGME-1.15.1, GTK+-3.24.28,and Rarian-0.8.1
MTA (that provides a sendmail command)
Compface-1.5.2, Gcr-3.40.0, gtksourceview-3.24.11, libcanberra-0.30, libnotify-0.7.9, libsecret-0.20.4, MIT Kerberos V5-1.19.1, OpenLDAP-2.4.58, Procmail-3.22, SQLite-3.35.4, WebKitGTK-2.32.0, html2text, osmo, rubrica, yelp-tools
User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/balsa
Install Balsa by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr \
--sysconfdir=/etc \
--localstatedir=/var/lib \
--without-html-widget \
--without-libnotify &&
make
This package does not come with a test suite.
Now, as the root user:
make install
--without-html-widget: This
option disables building the HTML renderer. If you want the HTML
renderer to be built, verify that you have WebKitGTK-2.32.0
installed, and then remove this option.
--with-canberra: Enable libcanberra
support.
--with-compface: Enable compface
support.
--with-gcr: Use libgcr for TLS support.
--with-gss: Enable GSSAPI support.
--with-ldap: Use this option to enable
LDAP address book support if OpenLDAP is installed.
--with-libsecret: Enable strong
password support and support for gnome-keyring to store passwords.
--with-sqlite: Use this option to
enable SQLite address book support if SQLite is installed.
Last updated on 2021-04-05 07:36:04 -0500