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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE partintro PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 | ]>
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| 7 |
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| 8 | <partintro>
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| 9 |
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| 10 | <title>Introduction to GNOME</title>
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| 11 |
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| 12 | <!-- <warning id="gnome_broken" xreflabel="SVN GNOME is Broken">
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| 13 | <para>The <application>GLib</application>/<application>GTK+</application>
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| 14 | tool stack in the current SVN book is not compatible with this version
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| 15 | of GNOME. If you want to build GNOME using these instructions, you should
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| 16 | follow the stable BLFS 6.2.0 book (<ulink url="../stable/gnome/gnome.html"/>),
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| 17 | including
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| 18 | using the versions of the packages listed there. The BLFS development team
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| 19 | is working as hard as possible to bring the book up to GNOME-2.18.x.</para>
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| 20 | </warning> -->
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| 21 |
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| 22 | <!-- <para>This chapter presents the instructions to install a complete
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| 23 | GNOME-&gnome-version;&gnome-minor-version; desktop environment; and a limited
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| 24 | GNOME 1.4 library environment that is sufficient to run GNOME 1.4
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| 25 | applications included in this book. The order of the pages follows the build
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| 26 | order defined by the GNOME development team and documented in the <ulink
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| 27 | url="http://www.gnome.org/start/&gnome-version;/notes/en/rninstallation.html">
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| 28 | Release Notes</ulink>.</para> -->
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| 29 |
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| 30 | <para>This chapter presents the instructions to install a complete
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| 31 | GNOME-&gnome-version;&gnome-minor-version; desktop environment. The order of
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| 32 | the installed packages follows the build order defined by the GNOME
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| 33 | development team and has been thoroughly tested by the BLFS team.</para>
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| 34 |
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| 35 | <para>The installation of GNOME-&gnome-version;&gnome-minor-version; is a
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| 36 | large undertaking and one we would like to see you complete with the least
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| 37 | amount of stress. One of the first goals in this installation is to protect
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| 38 | your previously installed software, especially if you are testing GNOME on
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| 39 | your machine. GNOME-&gnome-version; packages utilize the
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| 40 | <option>--prefix=option</option> passed to <command>configure</command>,
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| 41 | so you will use that and an environment variable (<envar>GNOME_PREFIX</envar>)
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| 42 | to add flexibility to the installation.</para>
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| 43 |
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| 44 | <para>To install GNOME as your desktop of choice, it is recommended that you
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| 45 | install using <option>--prefix=/usr</option>. If you are not sure that you
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| 46 | are going to keep the GNOME installation, or you think you will update to the
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| 47 | newest releases as they become available, you should install with
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| 48 | <option>--prefix=/opt/gnome-&gnome-version;&gnome-minor-version;</option>.
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| 49 | Setting the environment variable and the additional edits required by the
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| 50 | second option are covered in the Pre-Installation Configuration
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| 51 | section.</para>
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| 52 |
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| 53 | <para>If you choose the second option, removal of
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| 54 | GNOME-&gnome-version;&gnome-minor-version; is as easy as removing the edits
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| 55 | from the pre-installation page and issuing the following command (you may
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| 56 | need to become the <systemitem class='username'>root</systemitem>
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| 57 | user):</para>
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| 58 |
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| 59 | <screen role="root"><userinput>rm -rf /opt/gnome-&gnome-version;&gnome-minor-version;</userinput></screen>
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| 60 |
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| 61 | <para>If your system was completely built per LFS and BLFS instructions,
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| 62 | you have a very good chance of using
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| 63 | GNOME-&gnome-version;&gnome-minor-version; after your first installation. If
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| 64 | you are a typical LFS user, you have made modifications to the instructions
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| 65 | along the way knowing that you have to take those modifications into account
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| 66 | on future installations. You should have no problems integrating
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| 67 | GNOME-&gnome-version;&gnome-minor-version; into your unique setup, but you
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| 68 | will have to install well over 50 packages before you can run GNOME through
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| 69 | any testing (assuming your windowing system is preinstalled and tested). You
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| 70 | should anticipate that you will be rebuilding GNOME at least once to make
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| 71 | adjustments for your setup.</para>
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| 72 |
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| 73 | <!-- <para>If you are building a GNOME 1.4 library environment, you would install
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| 74 | only those libraries in the GNOME 1.4 chapter
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| 75 | <emphasis role='strong'>and</emphasis> any dependencies listed on those
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| 76 | pages, whether labeled or not. GNOME packages without pages in the book are
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| 77 | simply installed with:</para>
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| 78 |
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| 79 | <screen><userinput>./configure -prefix=/opt/gnome-1.4 &&
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| 80 | make</userinput></screen>
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| 81 |
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| 82 | <para>Now, as the <systemitem class='username'>root</systemitem> user:</para>
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| 83 |
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| 84 | <screen role='root'><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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| 85 |
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| 86 | <para>These instructions are simplistic to facilitate removal of
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| 87 | GNOME 1.4 from BLFS systems when it is no longer necessary. These
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| 88 | instructions may be refined later to comply with BLFS standards for file
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| 89 | locations, specifically
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| 90 | <filename class='directory'>/opt/gnome/etc</filename> to
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| 91 | <filename class='directory'>/etc</filename> and
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| 92 | <filename class='directory'>/opt/gnome/var</filename> to
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| 93 | <filename class='directory'>/var</filename>. You should consider using
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| 94 | the GNOME 1.4 hint located at <ulink url="&hints-root;"/> if you have no
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| 95 | interest in GNOME-&gnome-version;&gnome-minor-version;.</para> -->
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| 96 |
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| 97 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Alternate Installation Methods</bridgehead>
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| 98 | <para>As was previously mentioned, building a GNOME desktop from sources is a
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| 99 | significant project. Some may find it too tedious or time-consuming to perform
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| 100 | a full installation following the BLFS book. You may wish to review the
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| 101 | automated methods mentioned in the GNOME-&gnome-version; <ulink
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| 102 | url="http://www.gnome.org/start/&gnome-version;/notes/en/rninstallation.html">Release
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| 103 | Notes</ulink>. Note that using any other method to install
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| 104 | GNOME-&gnome-version;&gnome-minor-version; other than using the BLFS
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| 105 | instructions cannot be supported by the BLFS team. Alternate methods are only
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| 106 | mentioned as a courtesy to builders who would like to build GNOME from sources
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| 107 | but do not have the time/desire/patience/whatever to follow the BLFS
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| 108 | book.</para>
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| 109 |
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| 110 |
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| 111 | </partintro>
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