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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8 | Gnome2 development team as published in the <ulink url="http://www.gnome.org/start/2.0/releasenotes.html">release notes</ulink>.</para>
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10 | <warning><para>While we have been successful in building Gnome2 from these
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11 | instructions, we have also experienced several oddities in compiling and
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12 | running these applications. If these are build issues, watch for
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13 | adjustments to the instructions as we better understand this
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14 | product.</para></warning>
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15 |
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16 | <para>If you don't need the Gnome 1.4 library environment, you may skip
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17 | pages that are headed (Gnome 1.4).</para>
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18 |
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19 | <para>If you are building a Gnome 1.4 desktop environment, you would
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20 | install those labeled pages <emphasis>and</emphasis> any dependancies
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21 | listed on those pages whether labeled or not. Gnome packages without
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22 | pages are simply installed with:
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23 | <screen>./configure --prefix=/opt/gnome &&
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24 | make &&
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25 | make install</screen>
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26 | These instructions are simplistic to facilitate removal of Gnome 1.4
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27 | from BLFS systems when it is no longer necessary. These instructions
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28 | may be refined later to comply with BLFS standards for file locations,
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29 | specifically <filename>/opt/gnome/etc</filename> to
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30 | <filename>/etc</filename> and <filename>/opt/gnome/var</filename> to
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31 | <filename>/var</filename>. You should consider using the Gnome 1.4 hint
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32 | located at <ulink url="http://hints.linuxfromscratch.org/hints"/> if you
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33 | have no interest in Gnome2.</para>
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34 |
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35 | </partintro>
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