| 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 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 | Gnome 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 Gnome on your machine.
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| 15 | Gnome-&gnome-version; packages utilize the --prefix= option for configure, so we will
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| 16 | use that and an Environment variable (GNOME_PREFIX) to add flexibility to
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| 17 | the install.</para>
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| 18 |
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| 19 | <para>If you know that you want Gnome as your desktop, it is recommended that
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| 20 | you install with --prefix=/usr. If you are not sure that you are going
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| 21 | to keep Gnome on your installation, it is recommended that you install with
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| 22 | --prefix=/opt/gnome-&gnome-version;. Setting the Environment variable and the
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| 23 | additional edits required by the second option are covered on the
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| 24 | pre-installation page.</para>
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| 25 |
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| 26 | <para>If you choose the second option, removal of Gnome-2.2 is as easy as removing the edits from the pre-installation page and issue the following commands:
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| 27 | <screen><userinput>rm /opt/gnome-&gnome-version; -r </userinput></screen></para>
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| 28 |
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| 29 | <para>If your system was completely built per LFS and BLFS
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| 30 | instructions, you have a very good chance of using Gnome-&gnome-version;
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| 31 | after your first install. If you are a typical LFS user, you have made
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| 32 | modifications to the instructions along the way knowing that you have to
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| 33 | take those modifications into account on future installations. You
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| 34 | should have no problems integrating Gnome-&gnome-version; into your unique setup, but
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| 35 | you will have 28 to 33 packages installed before you can run Gnome
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| 36 | through any testing (assuming your window manager is preinstalled and
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| 37 | tested). We would anticipate that you will be rebuilding gnome at least
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| 38 | once to make adjustments for your setup.</para>
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| 39 |
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| 40 | <para>If you are building a Gnome 1.4 desktop environment, you would
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| 41 | install only those libraries in the Gnome 1.4 chapter <emphasis>and</emphasis> any dependancies listed on those pages whether labeled or not. Gnome packages without pages are simply installed with:
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| 42 | <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/opt/gnome &&
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| 43 | make &&
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| 44 | make install</userinput></screen>
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| 45 | These instructions are simplistic to facilitate removal of Gnome 1.4
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| 46 | from BLFS systems when it is no longer necessary. These instructions
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| 47 | may be refined later to comply with BLFS standards for file locations,
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| 48 | specifically <filename>/opt/gnome/etc</filename> to
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| 49 | <filename>/etc</filename> and <filename>/opt/gnome/var</filename> to
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| 50 | <filename>/var</filename>. You should consider using the Gnome 1.4 hint
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| 51 | located at <ulink url="http://hints.linuxfromscratch.org/hints"/> if you
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| 52 | have no interest in Gnome-&gnome-version;.</para>
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| 53 |
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| 54 | <para><screen>Gnome-&gnome-version; requires:
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| 55 | <xref linkend="xfree86"/>, Xft, fontconfig, <xref linkend="GTK2"/>,
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| 56 | <xref linkend="libpng"/>, <xref linkend="libjpeg"/>,
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| 57 | <xref linkend="libtiff"/>, <xref linkend="popt"/>
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| 58 | Gnome-&gnome-version; will utilize:
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| 59 | <xref linkend="libxml2"/>, <xref linkend="libxslt"/>,
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| 60 | <xref linkend="DocBook"/>, <xref linkend="docbook-xsl"/> and
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| 61 | <xref linkend="libfam"/></screen></para>
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| 62 |
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| 63 | </partintro>
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