Changeset 31be310 for lxqt/desktop/pre-install.xml

Timestamp:

10/18/2016 07:09:20 PM (8 years ago)

Author:

Pierre Labastie <pieere@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, lxqt, nosym, perl-modules, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

11c16fdc

Parents:

0622919d

Message:

Really Update LXQt Desktop

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@17896 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

File:

• lxqt/desktop/pre-install.xml (modified) (4 diffs)

lxqt/desktop/pre-install.xml

@@ -23 +23 @@
     <para>
       Due to recent changes in <command>grep</command> it is essential that
-      the installing system be set to a UTF-8 locale. An example
-      is <command>export LANG=en_US.utf8</command>, but any UTF-8 locale is
+      the installing system be set to an UTF-8 locale. An example
+      is <command>export LANG=en_US.UTF-8</command>, but any UTF-8 locale is
       sufficient. Failure to do this will result in a faulty installation.
     </para>
@@ -126 +126 @@
       Some packages from the KDE Frameworks 5 bundle install files into D-Bus
       directories. In order to have D-Bus find those files, the easiest
-      way is to create the following symlink (as the <systemitem
-      class="username">root</systemitem> user):
-    </para>
-
-<screen role="root"><userinput>ln -sfv /usr/share/dbus-1 $LXQT_PREFIX/share</userinput></screen>
-
-    <para>
-      Some packages may also install icons from the <quote>hicolor</quote>
-      icon set. Since that icon set is used by many packages, it is a good
-      idea to create a symlink to the one in <filename
+      way is to create a symlink. Some packages may also install icons from
+      the <quote>hicolor</quote> icon set. Since that icon set is used by many
+      packages, it is a good idea to create a symlink to the one in <filename
       class="directory">/usr/share</filename> to avoid having multiple
-      installations of <xref linkend="hicolor-icon-theme"/>.  Run the
+      installations of <xref linkend="hicolor-icon-theme"/>. Run the
       following commands as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
       user:
@@ -143 +136 @@
 
 <screen role="root"><userinput>source /etc/profile                                       &amp;&amp;
+ln -sfv /usr/share/dbus-1        $LXQT_PREFIX/share       &amp;&amp;
 install -v -dm755                $LXQT_PREFIX/share/icons &amp;&amp;
 ln -sfv /usr/share/icons/hicolor $LXQT_PREFIX/share/icons</userinput></screen>
-
 
     <tip>
@@ -172 +165 @@
   </sect2>
 
+  <sect2>
+    <title>Notes about building LXQt dependencies</title>
+
+    <para>
+      <application>LXQt</application> obviously needs <xref linkend="qt5"/>,
+      but not all Qt5 modules and dependencies are necessary. Since the aim
+      of <application>LXQt</application> is to be light weight, it may be
+      interesting to cut down the Qt5 overhead, and to build only parts of it.
+      To build Qt and LXQT dependencies, the proposed order is the following:
+    </para>
+
+    <procedure>
+      <step>
+        <para>
+          Build <xref linkend="linux-pam"/>, <xref linkend="shadow"/>,
+          and <xref linkend="sudo"/>, with their dependencies
+        </para>
+      </step>
+
+      <step>
+        <para>
+          Build the whole <xref linkend="x-window-system"/> chapter, with
+          Wayland support, and replacing twm vith <xref linkend="openbox"/>
+          (and its required dependencies). Some Xorg applications and fonts
+          may be omitted, but with a negligible impact on build time and size
+        </para>
+      </step>
+
+      <step>
+        <para>
+          Build <xref linkend="gtk2"/> and its required and recommended
+          dependencies. GTK+2 is needed for <xref linkend="libfm"/>, and
+          brings the <command>gtk-update-icon-cache</command> executable,
+          which is needed by libqtxdg
+        </para>
+      </step>
+
+      <step>
+        <para>
+          Build required Qt dependencies, and some of the recommended or
+          optional dependencies, namely:
+          <xref linkend="dbus"/>,
+          <xref linkend="alsa-lib"/>,
+          <xref linkend="pulseaudio"/>, and
+          <xref linkend="libxkbcommon"/>
+        </para>
+      </step>
+
+      <step>
+        <para>
+          Build the required parts of <xref linkend="qt5"/>. To skip all
+          modules but the four needed for LXQt, do:
+        </para>
+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>ls -Fd qt* | grep / | sed 's/^/-skip /;s/qt//;s@/@@' > tempconf
+sed -i '/base/d;/tools/d;/x11extras/d;/svg/d' tempconf
+# if you plan to build SDDM, add:
+sed -i '/declarative/d'
+./configure &lt;book flags&gt; $(cat tempconf)</userinput></screen>
+        <para>
+          The time needed to complete the Qt installation is thus reduced to
+          around 6 SBU
+        </para>
+      </step>
+
+      <step>
+        <para>
+          Build miscelaneous dependencies (with their required ones):
+          <xref linkend="libstatgrab"/>,
+          <xref linkend="polkit"/>,
+          <phrase revision="sysv">
+            <xref linkend="consolekit"/>,
+            <xref linkend="pm-utils"/>,
+          </phrase>
+          <xref linkend="lm_sensors"/>,
+          <xref linkend="upower"/>, and
+          <xref linkend="libfm"/>. If <xref linkend="cmake"/> has not been
+          built during the preceding steps, build it now
+        </para>
+      </step>
+
+      <step>
+        <para>
+          Build KDE frameworks dependencies:
+          <xref linkend="extra-cmake-modules"/>,
+          <xref linkend="libdbusmenu-qt"/>, and
+          <xref linkend="polkit-qt"/>
+        </para>
+      </step>
+
+      <step>
+        <para>
+          Finally, build some desktop utilities:
+          <xref linkend="xdg-utils"/> (needs only xmlto),
+          <xref linkend="xdg-user-dirs"/>,
+          <xref linkend="oxygen-icons5"/> or other sets of icons
+        </para>
+      </step>
+    </procedure>
+
+  </sect2>
+
 </sect1>