[a90533f0] | 1 | <partintro>
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[a294e133] | 2 | <title>Introduction to <application><acronym>GNOME</acronym></application></title>
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[a90533f0] | 3 |
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[a294e133] | 4 | <para>This chapter attempts to install a complete
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| 5 | <application><acronym>GNOME</acronym></application>-&gnome-version; desktop
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| 6 | environment and a limited
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| 7 | <application><acronym>GNOME</acronym></application> 1.4 library environment that is
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| 8 | sufficient to run <application><acronym>GNOME</acronym></application> 1.4 applications included in this book. The
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[a90533f0] | 9 | order of the pages are meant to follow the build order defined by the
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[a35680c] | 10 | GNOME development team as published in the <ulink
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[b394e5f7] | 11 | url="http://www.gnome.org/start/&gnome-version;/notes/rninstallation.html">release notes</ulink>,
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| 12 | with some additional packages added to satisfy some dependencies.</para>
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[a90533f0] | 13 |
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[a294e133] | 14 | <para>The installation of <application><acronym>GNOME</acronym></application>-&gnome-version; is a large undertaking and one we would
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[5407cf7] | 15 | like to see you complete with the least amount of stress. One
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[e7c62229] | 16 | of our first goals in this installation is to protect your previously
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[a294e133] | 17 | installed software, especially if you are testing
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| 18 | <application><acronym>GNOME</acronym></application> on your machine.
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| 19 | <application><acronym>GNOME</acronym></application>-&gnome-version; packages utilize the --prefix= option for configure, so we will
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[e68cc1c] | 20 | use that and an Environment variable (<envar>GNOME_PREFIX</envar>) to add flexibility to
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[5407cf7] | 21 | the install.</para>
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[e7c62229] | 22 |
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[a294e133] | 23 | <para>If you know that you want
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| 24 | <application><acronym>GNOME</acronym></application> as your desktop, it is recommended that
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[5407cf7] | 25 | you install with --prefix=/usr. If you are not sure that you are going
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[a294e133] | 26 | to keep <application><acronym>GNOME</acronym></application> on your installation, it is recommended that you install with
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[5407cf7] | 27 | --prefix=/opt/gnome-&gnome-version;. Setting the Environment variable and the
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| 28 | additional edits required by the second option are covered on the
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| 29 | pre-installation page.</para>
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| 30 |
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[a294e133] | 31 | <para>If you choose the second option, removal of
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| 32 | <application><acronym>GNOME</acronym></application>-&gnome-version; is as easy
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[2be0e0d] | 33 | as removing the edits from the pre-installation page and issuing the
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[a75063d4] | 34 | following command:</para>
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| 35 | <screen><userinput><command>rm /opt/gnome-&gnome-version; -r </command></userinput></screen>
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[5407cf7] | 36 |
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[ab8a3cb] | 37 | <para>If your system was completely built per <acronym>LFS</acronym> and
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| 38 | <acronym>BLFS</acronym>
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[a294e133] | 39 | instructions, you have a very good chance of using
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| 40 | <application><acronym>GNOME</acronym></application>-&gnome-version;
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[ab8a3cb] | 41 | after your first install. If you are a typical <acronym>LFS</acronym> user, you have made
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[e7c62229] | 42 | modifications to the instructions along the way knowing that you have to
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| 43 | take those modifications into account on future installations. You
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[a294e133] | 44 | should have no problems integrating
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| 45 | <application><acronym>GNOME</acronym></application>-&gnome-version; into your unique setup, but
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| 46 | you will have 28 to 33 packages installed before you can run
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| 47 | <application><acronym>GNOME</acronym></application>
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[e7c62229] | 48 | through any testing (assuming your window manager is preinstalled and
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[a294e133] | 49 | tested). We would anticipate that you will be rebuilding
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| 50 | <application><acronym>GNOME</acronym></application> at least
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[5407cf7] | 51 | once to make adjustments for your setup.</para>
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[a90533f0] | 52 |
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[a294e133] | 53 | <para>If you are building a
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| 54 | <application><acronym>GNOME</acronym></application> 1.4 desktop environment, you would
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| 55 | install only those libraries in the
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| 56 | <application><acronym>GNOME</acronym></application> 1.4 chapter
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| 57 | <emphasis>and</emphasis> any dependencies listed on those pages, whether
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| 58 | labeled or not. <application><acronym>GNOME</acronym></application> packages without pages are simply installed with:
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[6992ce7] | 59 | <screen><command>./configure --prefix=/opt/gnome &&
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[a90533f0] | 60 | make &&
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[6992ce7] | 61 | make install</command></screen>
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[a294e133] | 62 | These instructions are simplistic to facilitate removal of
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| 63 | <application><acronym>GNOME</acronym></application> 1.4
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[ab8a3cb] | 64 | from <acronym>BLFS</acronym> systems when it is no longer necessary. These instructions
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| 65 | may be refined later to comply with <acronym>BLFS</acronym> standards for file locations,
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[e68cc1c] | 66 | specifically <filename class='directory'>/opt/gnome/etc</filename> to
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| 67 | <filename class='directory'>/etc</filename> and <filename
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| 68 | class='directory'>/opt/gnome/var</filename> to
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[a294e133] | 69 | <filename class='directory'>/var</filename>. You should consider using
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| 70 | the <application><acronym>GNOME</acronym></application> 1.4 hint
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[f801af3] | 71 | located at <ulink url="http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/"/> if you
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[a294e133] | 72 | have no interest in <application><acronym>GNOME</acronym></application>-&gnome-version;.</para>
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[a90533f0] | 73 |
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[a294e133] | 74 | <para><application><acronym>GNOME</acronym></application>-&gnome-version; dependencies</para>
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[78051a3] | 75 | <para>Required</para>
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| 76 | <para><xref linkend="xfree86"/>, <xref linkend="GTK2"/>, <xref
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| 77 | linkend="libpng"/>,
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| 78 | <xref linkend="libjpeg"/>, <xref linkend="libtiff"/> and <xref
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| 79 | linkend="popt"/></para>
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| 80 | <para>Optional</para>
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| 81 | <para><xref linkend="libxml2"/>, <xref linkend="libxslt"/>, <xref
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| 82 | linkend="DocBook"/>,
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| 83 | <xref linkend="docbook-xsl"/> and <xref linkend="libfam"/></para>
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| 84 |
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[a90533f0] | 85 | </partintro>
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