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[6732c094] | 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 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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[fdca4266] | 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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[85b98c3] | 8 | <sect1 id="gnome-pre-install-config">
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[9ad96f5] | 9 | <?dbhtml filename="pre-install-config.html"?>
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[d1ea01e3] | 10 |
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[15a1fed9] | 11 | <sect1info>
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| 12 | <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
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| 13 | <date>$Date$</date>
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| 14 | </sect1info>
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[23abb34] | 15 |
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[9ad96f5] | 16 | <title>Pre-installation Configuration</title>
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[23abb34] | 17 |
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[8d3eae9] | 18 | <!-- FIXME:ken -->
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| 19 | <note>
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| 20 | <para>The <application>GNOME</application> packages in this book are being
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| 21 | updated to <application>GNOME-3</application>. At the moment, the instructions
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[91953bc] | 22 | and links for many <application>GNOME</application> packages are probably
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[8d3eae9] | 23 | broken. Please consult the archives for the BLFS-support mailing list, from
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| 24 | January 24th 2012 onwards, for pointers to the old
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| 25 | <application>GNOME-2</application> book and for where to look when building
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| 26 | <application>GNOME-3</application>.</para>
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| 27 | </note>
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| 28 |
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[15a1fed9] | 29 | <para>Set an environment variable to resolve the prefix destination.</para>
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[23abb34] | 30 |
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[9ad96f5] | 31 | <para>If <application>GNOME</application> is your desktop of choice:</para>
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[23abb34] | 32 |
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[8d3eae9] | 33 | <screen><userinput>cat > /etc/profile.d/gnome.sh << "EOF" &&
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| 34 | <literal>export GNOME_PREFIX=/usr
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| 35 | export GNOME_SYSCONFDIR=&gnome-etc-dir;
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| 36 | export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=$GNOME_SYSCONFDIR/xdg
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| 37 | export XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/share:/usr/local/share</literal>
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| 38 | EOF
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| 39 | . /etc/profile.d/gnome.sh</userinput></screen>
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| 40 |
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[26a12b5] | 41 |
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[9ad96f5] | 42 | <para>If you want to try-out <application>GNOME</application>, or install
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[3b269b9] | 43 | it in an easy-to-remove location:</para>
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[b394e5f7] | 44 |
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[9761bea4] | 45 | <note>
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| 46 | <para>You may wish to create a symbolic link to the actual versioned
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| 47 | directory using a non-versioned name. This has the advantage of an easier
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| 48 | path to type in all the changes below and also makes it easy to point
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| 49 | to a different/newer version of GNOME without changing all the edits
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| 50 | below. If you wish to use a non-versioned name in the changes below,
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| 51 | issue the following commands as the
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| 52 | <systemitem class='username'>root</systemitem> user:</para>
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| 53 |
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[790998f] | 54 | <screen role='root'><userinput>install -v -m755 -d /opt/gnome-&gnome-version;&gnome-minor-version; &&
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| 55 | ln -v -s gnome-&gnome-version;&gnome-minor-version; /opt/gnome</userinput></screen>
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[9761bea4] | 56 | </note>
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| 57 |
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| 58 | <para>If you created the symbolic link, change all instances of <filename
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[790998f] | 59 | class='directory'>/opt/gnome-&gnome-version;&gnome-minor-version;</filename>
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[9761bea4] | 60 | to <filename class='directory'>/opt/gnome</filename> in the instructions
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| 61 | below.</para>
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[d1ea01e3] | 62 |
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[790998f] | 63 | <screen><userinput>export GNOME_PREFIX=/opt/gnome-&gnome-version;&gnome-minor-version;</userinput></screen>
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[d1ea01e3] | 64 |
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[15a1fed9] | 65 | <para>The try-out group will also need to make all the following
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| 66 | configuration changes:</para>
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| 67 |
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| 68 | <para>Add to your system or personal profile:</para>
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| 69 |
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[790998f] | 70 | <screen><literal>export PATH=$PATH:/opt/gnome-&gnome-version;&gnome-minor-version;/bin
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| 71 | export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:/opt/gnome-&gnome-version;&gnome-minor-version;/lib/pkgconfig
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| 72 | export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:/opt/gnome-&gnome-version;&gnome-minor-version;/share/pkgconfig
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[4a96d460] | 73 | export GNOME_LIBCONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib:/opt/gnome-&gnome-version;&gnome-minor-version;/lib
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[b88be39] | 74 | export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/opt/gnome-&gnome-version;&gnome-minor-version;/lib/python&python2-majorver;/site-packages</literal></screen>
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[d1ea01e3] | 75 |
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[15a1fed9] | 76 | <para>Add to your <filename>/etc/ld.so.conf</filename>:</para>
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[d1ea01e3] | 77 |
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[9ad96f5] | 78 | <screen role='root'><userinput>cat >> /etc/ld.so.conf << "EOF"
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[15a1fed9] | 79 | <literal># Begin gnome addition to /etc/ld.so.conf
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[d1ea01e3] | 80 |
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[790998f] | 81 | /opt/gnome-&gnome-version;&gnome-minor-version;/lib
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[d1ea01e3] | 82 |
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[15a1fed9] | 83 | # End gnome addition</literal>
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[9ad96f5] | 84 | EOF</userinput></screen>
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[d1ea01e3] | 85 |
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[58c6057] | 86 | <para>Add to your <filename>/etc/man_db.conf</filename>:</para>
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[d1ea01e3] | 87 |
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[58c6057] | 88 | <screen role='root'><userinput>cat >> /etc/man_db.conf << "EOF"
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| 89 | <literal># Begin gnome addition to man_db.conf
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[d1ea01e3] | 90 |
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[790998f] | 91 | MANDATORY_MANPATH /opt/gnome-&gnome-version;&gnome-minor-version;/share/man
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[d1ea01e3] | 92 |
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[58c6057] | 93 | # End gnome addition to man_db.conf</literal>
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[9ad96f5] | 94 | EOF</userinput></screen>
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[d1ea01e3] | 95 |
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[9761bea4] | 96 | <tip>
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| 97 | <para>Remember to execute <command>ldconfig</command> as the
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| 98 | <systemitem class='username'>root</systemitem> user after installation of
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| 99 | libraries to update the linker's library cache.</para>
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| 100 | </tip>
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| 101 |
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[d1ea01e3] | 102 | </sect1>
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