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<sect1 id="gnome-pre-install-config">
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  <title>Pre-installation Configuration</title>

  <para>Set an environment variable to resolve the prefix destination.</para>

  <para>If <application>GNOME</application> is your desktop of choice:</para>

<screen><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/profile.d/gnome.sh &lt;&lt; "EOF" &amp;&amp;
<literal>export GNOME_PREFIX=/usr
export GNOME_SYSCONFDIR=&gnome-etc-dir;
export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=${GNOME_SYSCONFDIR}/xdg
export XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/share:/usr/local/share</literal>
EOF
. /etc/profile.d/gnome.sh</userinput></screen>


  <para>If you want to try-out <application>GNOME</application>, or install
  it in an easy-to-remove location:</para>

  <note>
    <para>You may wish to create a symbolic link to the actual versioned
    directory using a non-versioned name. This has the advantage of an easier
    path to type in all the changes below and also makes it easy to point
    to a different/newer version of GNOME without changing all the edits
    below. If you wish to use a non-versioned name in the changes below,
    issue the following commands as the
    <systemitem class='username'>root</systemitem> user:</para>

<screen role='root'><userinput>install -v -m755 -d /opt/gnome-&gnome-version;&gnome-minor-version; &amp;&amp;
ln -v -s gnome-&gnome-version;&gnome-minor-version; /opt/gnome</userinput></screen>
  </note>

  <para>If you created the symbolic link, change all instances of <filename
  class='directory'>/opt/gnome-&gnome-version;&gnome-minor-version;</filename>
  to <filename class='directory'>/opt/gnome</filename> in the instructions
  below.</para>

<screen><userinput>export GNOME_PREFIX=/opt/gnome-&gnome-version;&gnome-minor-version;</userinput></screen>

  <para>The try-out group will also need to make all the following
  configuration changes:</para>

  <para>Add to your system or personal profile:</para>

<screen><literal>export PATH=${PATH}:/opt/gnome-&gnome-version;&gnome-minor-version;/bin
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=${PKG_CONFIG_PATH}:/opt/gnome-&gnome-version;&gnome-minor-version;/lib/pkgconfig
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=${PKG_CONFIG_PATH}:/opt/gnome-&gnome-version;&gnome-minor-version;/share/pkgconfig
export GNOME_LIBCONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib:/opt/gnome-&gnome-version;&gnome-minor-version;/lib
export PYTHONPATH=${PYTHONPATH}:/usr/lib/python&python2-majorver;/site-packages:/opt/gnome-&gnome-version;/lib/python&python2-majorver;/site-packages</literal></screen>

  <para>Add to your <filename>/etc/ld.so.conf</filename>:</para>

<screen role='root'><userinput>cat &gt;&gt; /etc/ld.so.conf &lt;&lt; "EOF"
<literal># Begin gnome addition to /etc/ld.so.conf

/opt/gnome-&gnome-version;&gnome-minor-version;/lib

# End gnome addition</literal>
EOF</userinput></screen>

  <para>Add to your <filename>/etc/man_db.conf</filename>:</para>

<screen role='root'><userinput>cat &gt;&gt; /etc/man_db.conf &lt;&lt; "EOF"
<literal># Begin gnome addition to man_db.conf

MANDATORY_MANPATH /opt/gnome-&gnome-version;&gnome-minor-version;/share/man

# End gnome addition to man_db.conf</literal>
EOF</userinput></screen>

  <tip>
    <para>Remember to execute <command>ldconfig</command> as the
    <systemitem class='username'>root</systemitem> user after installation of
    libraries to update the linker's library cache.</para>
  </tip>

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