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.
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Development versions of BLFS may not build or run some packages properly if LFS or dependencies have been updated since the most recent stable versions of the books.
Download (HTTP): https://download.gnome.org/sources/evince/45/evince-45.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 494cdeef8898a2479aa86f8def7a63bc
Download size: 2.8 MB
Estimated disk space required: 45 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU (Using parallelism=4)
adwaita-icon-theme-45.0, gsettings-desktop-schemas-45.0, GTK+-3.24.38, itstool-2.0.7, libhandy-1.8.2, libxml2-2.12.1, and OpenJPEG-2.5.0
gnome-keyring-42.1, gobject-introspection-1.78.1, libarchive-3.7.2, libsecret-0.21.1, and Poppler-23.11.0
Cups-2.4.7 (to enable printing if support is built into GTK+ 3), gnome-desktop-44.0, gspell-1.12.2, gst-plugins-base-1.22.7, Gi-DocGen-2023.3, libgxps-0.3.2, libtiff-4.6.0, texlive-20230313 (or install-tl-unx), DjVuLibre, libspectre, and Synctex
Install Evince by running the following commands:
mkdir build &&
cd build &&
CPPFLAGS+=" -I/opt/texlive/2023/include" \
meson setup --prefix=/usr \
--buildtype=release \
-Dgtk_doc=false \
--wrap-mode=nodownload \
.. &&
ninjaIf you have Gi-DocGen-2023.3 installed and wish to build the API documentation for this package, issue:
sed "/docs_dir/s@\$@ / 'evince-45.0'@" -i ../help/meson.build && meson configure -Dgtk_doc=true && ninja
This package does not have a working test suite.
Now, as the root user:
ninja install
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
--buildtype=release: Specify a buildtype
suitable for stable releases of the package, as the default may
produce unoptimized binaries.
CPPFLAGS+=" -I/opt/texlive/...":
Make sure that meson can find libkpathsea headers from TeXLive if it
is installed. This has no effect on systems without TeXLive installed.
--wrap-mode=nodownload: This switch disables
fetching any dependency: the build system tries to fetch gi-docgen
even if -Dgtk_doc=false is passed.
-Dgtk_doc=false: Allow building this package without Gi-DocGen-2023.3
installed. If you have Gi-DocGen-2023.3 installed and
you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation, a
meson configure command will reset this
option.
-Dgspell=false: This switch turns off support
for the spell checking plugin.
-Dintrospection=false: Use this option if you
don't have gobject-introspection-1.78.1
installed and don't wish to have introspection support built into Evince.
-Dnautilus=false: This switch disables building
the Nautilus Plugin. Use this switch
if Nautilus is not installed.
-Dkeyring=false: This switch disables the use of
libsecret. Use this switch
if libsecret is not installed.
-Dps=enabled: Use this switch if
libspectre is installed and you want to
view PostScript files with Evince.