[a90533f0] | 1 | <partintro>
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| 2 | <title>Introduction to Gnome</title>
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| 3 |
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| 4 | <para>This chapter attempts to install a complete Gnome2 desktop
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| 5 | environment and a limited Gnome 1.4 library environment that is
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| 6 | sufficient to run Gnome 1.4 applications included in this book. The
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| 7 | order of the pages are meant to follow the build order defined by the
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[e7c62229] | 8 | Gnome2 development team as published in the <ulink url="http://www.gnome.org/start/2.0/releasenotes.html">release notes</ulink>. If a package is in the release notes build list, but not in this chapter, it has been installed elsewhere in the book.</para>
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[a90533f0] | 9 |
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[e7c62229] | 10 | <para>The installation of Gnome2 is a large undertaking and one we would
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| 11 | very much like to see you complete with the least amount of stress. One
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| 12 | of our first goals in this installation is to protect your previously
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| 13 | installed software. For absolute protection, we would construct a
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| 14 | chroot jail for the installation, but since Gnome2 packages utilize the
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| 15 | --prefix= option for configure, we will use that to fulfill our goal.
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| 16 | There are two locations usable for our purposes,
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| 17 | <filename>/usr/local</filename> and <filename>/opt/package</filename>.
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| 18 | Since <filename>/usr/local</filename> is not utilized any where in the
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| 19 | BLFS book, installation there would closely parallel a Gnome2
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| 20 | installation using --prefix=/usr. However, it is not
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| 21 | entirely safe for us to assume that your installation does not have any
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| 22 | files in <filename>/usr/local</filename>. Therefore we are going to
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| 23 | install with --prefix=/opt/gnome2. This will require additional edits
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| 24 | which are covered on the pre-installation page. Removal of Gnome2 for
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| 25 | any reason is as easy as removing the edits from the pre-installation
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| 26 | page and issue the following commands:
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| 27 | <screen><userinput>rm /opt/gnome2 -r &&
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| 28 | rm /etc/gnome -r</userinput></screen></para>
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| 29 |
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| 30 | <para>If your system was completely built per LFS 4.0 and BLFS
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| 31 | instructions, you have a very good chance of using Gnome2
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| 32 | after your first install. If you are a typical LFS user, you have made
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| 33 | modifications to the instructions along the way knowing that you have to
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| 34 | take those modifications into account on future installations. You
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| 35 | should have no problems integrating Gnome2 into your unique setup, but
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| 36 | you will have 28 to 33 packages installed before you can run Gnome
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| 37 | through any testing (assuming your window manager is preinstalled and
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| 38 | tested). We would anticipate that you will be rebuilding gnome at least
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| 39 | once to make adjustments for your setup. If this is the only chapter you
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| 40 | are utilizing from the BLFS book, we think you should be successful by
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| 41 | following these instructions, but you may find problems along the way
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| 42 | that we may or may not be able to help you though on the blfs-support mailing
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| 43 | list.</para>
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[a90533f0] | 44 |
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| 45 | <para>If you don't need the Gnome 1.4 library environment, you may skip
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| 46 | pages that are headed (Gnome 1.4).</para>
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| 47 |
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| 48 | <para>If you are building a Gnome 1.4 desktop environment, you would
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| 49 | install those labeled pages <emphasis>and</emphasis> any dependancies
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| 50 | listed on those pages whether labeled or not. Gnome packages without
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| 51 | pages are simply installed with:
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[e7c62229] | 52 | <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/opt/gnome &&
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[a90533f0] | 53 | make &&
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[e7c62229] | 54 | make install</userinput></screen>
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[a90533f0] | 55 | These instructions are simplistic to facilitate removal of Gnome 1.4
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| 56 | from BLFS systems when it is no longer necessary. These instructions
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| 57 | may be refined later to comply with BLFS standards for file locations,
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| 58 | specifically <filename>/opt/gnome/etc</filename> to
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| 59 | <filename>/etc</filename> and <filename>/opt/gnome/var</filename> to
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| 60 | <filename>/var</filename>. You should consider using the Gnome 1.4 hint
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| 61 | located at <ulink url="http://hints.linuxfromscratch.org/hints"/> if you
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| 62 | have no interest in Gnome2.</para>
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| 63 |
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[e7c62229] | 64 | <para>At this time, we feel that Gnome2 should be left in <filename>/opt/gnome2</filename>, but you can easily adjust the --prefix= option to your
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| 65 | chosen destination. This can be done from the start or after a trial
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| 66 | install.</para>
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| 67 |
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[a90533f0] | 68 | </partintro>
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