| 1 | <partintro>
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| 2 | <title>Introduction to <application>GNOME</application></title>
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| 3 |
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| 4 | <para>This chapter attempts to install a complete GNOME-&gnome-version; 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 | <application>GNOME</application> development team as published in the <ulink
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| 9 | url="http://www.gnome.org/start/&gnome-version;/notes/rninstallation.html">release notes</ulink>, with two exceptions. 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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| 10 |
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| 11 | <para>The installation of GNOME-&gnome-version; is a large undertaking and one we would
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| 12 | like to see you complete with the least amount of stress. One
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| 13 | of our first goals in this installation is to protect your previously
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| 14 | installed software, especially if you are testing
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| 15 | <application>GNOME</application> on your machine.
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| 16 | GNOME-&gnome-version; packages utilize the --prefix= option for configure, so we will
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| 17 | use that and an Environment variable (<envar>GNOME_PREFIX</envar>) to add flexibility to
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| 18 | the install.</para>
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| 19 |
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| 20 | <para>If you know that you want <application>GNOME</application> as your desktop, it is recommended that
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| 21 | you install with --prefix=/usr. If you are not sure that you are going
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| 22 | to keep <application>GNOME</application> on your installation, it is recommended that you install with
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| 23 | --prefix=/opt/gnome-&gnome-version;. Setting the Environment variable and the
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| 24 | additional edits required by the second option are covered on the
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| 25 | pre-installation page.</para>
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| 26 |
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| 27 | <para>If you choose the second option, removal of GNOME-2.2 is as easy
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| 28 | as removing the edits from the pre-installation page and issueing the following command:
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| 29 | <screen><userinput><command>rm /opt/gnome-&gnome-version; -r </command></userinput></screen></para>
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| 30 |
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| 31 | <para>If your system was completely built per <acronym>LFS</acronym> and
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| 32 | <acronym>BLFS</acronym>
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| 33 | instructions, you have a very good chance of using GNOME-&gnome-version;
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| 34 | after your first install. If you are a typical <acronym>LFS</acronym> user, you have made
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| 35 | modifications to the instructions along the way knowing that you have to
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| 36 | take those modifications into account on future installations. You
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| 37 | should have no problems integrating GNOME-&gnome-version; into your unique setup, but
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| 38 | you will have 28 to 33 packages installed before you can run GNOME
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| 39 | through any testing (assuming your window manager is preinstalled and
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| 40 | tested). We would anticipate that you will be rebuilding GNOME at least
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| 41 | once to make adjustments for your setup.</para>
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| 42 |
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| 43 | <para>If you are building a GNOME 1.4 desktop environment, you would
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| 44 | install only those libraries in the GNOME 1.4 chapter
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| 45 | <emphasis>and</emphasis> any dependencies listed on those pages, whether labeled or not. GNOME packages without pages are simply installed with:
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| 46 | <screen><command>./configure --prefix=/opt/gnome &&
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| 47 | make &&
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| 48 | make install</command></screen>
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| 49 | These instructions are simplistic to facilitate removal of GNOME 1.4
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| 50 | from <acronym>BLFS</acronym> systems when it is no longer necessary. These instructions
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| 51 | may be refined later to comply with <acronym>BLFS</acronym> standards for file locations,
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| 52 | specifically <filename class='directory'>/opt/gnome/etc</filename> to
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| 53 | <filename class='directory'>/etc</filename> and <filename
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| 54 | class='directory'>/opt/gnome/var</filename> to
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| 55 | <filename class='directory'>/var</filename>. You should consider using the GNOME 1.4 hint
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| 56 | located at <ulink url="http://hints.linuxfromscratch.org/hints"/> if you
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| 57 | have no interest in GNOME-&gnome-version;.</para>
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| 58 |
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| 59 | <para><application>GNOME-&gnome-version;</application> dependencies</para>
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| 60 | <para>Required</para>
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| 61 | <para><xref linkend="xfree86"/>, <xref linkend="GTK2"/>, <xref
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| 62 | linkend="libpng"/>,
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| 63 | <xref linkend="libjpeg"/>, <xref linkend="libtiff"/> and <xref
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| 64 | linkend="popt"/></para>
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| 65 | <para>Optional</para>
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| 66 | <para><xref linkend="libxml2"/>, <xref linkend="libxslt"/>, <xref
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| 67 | linkend="DocBook"/>,
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| 68 | <xref linkend="docbook-xsl"/> and <xref linkend="libfam"/></para>
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| 72 | </partintro>
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