Beyond Linux® From Scratch (System V Edition) - Version 12.2

Chapter 34. GNOME Applications

Seahorse-43.0

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 12.2 platform.

Package Information

Additional Downloads

Seahorse Dependencies

Required

Gcr-3.41.2, GnuPG-2.4.5, GPGME-1.23.2, itstool-2.0.7, libhandy-1.8.3, libpwquality-1.4.5, libsecret-0.21.4, and Vala-0.56.17

Recommended

libsoup-3.4.4, p11-kit-0.25.5, and OpenSSH-9.8p1 (for managing SSH keys)

Optional

Avahi-0.8

Runtime Dependency

gnome-keyring-46.2

Installation of Seahorse

At first, apply a patch to build failures triggered by GnuPG-2.4 or newer, and GCC-14 or newer: 

patch -Np1 -i ../seahorse-43.0-upstream_fixes-1.patch

Install Seahorse by running the following commands: 

sed -i -r 's:"(/apps):"/org/gnome\1:' data/*.xml &&

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

meson setup --prefix=/usr --buildtype=release .. &&
ninja

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user: 

ninja install

Command Explanations

--buildtype=release: Specify a buildtype suitable for stable releases of the package, as the default may produce unoptimized binaries.

sed ... data/*.xml: This command fixes some deprecated entries in the schema templates.

Contents

Installed Program: seahorse
Installed Libraries: None
Installed Directories: /usr/{libexec,share,share/help/*}/seahorse

Short Descriptions

seahorse

is the graphical interface for managing and using encryption keys