Beyond Linux® From Scratch (systemd Edition) - Version 2020-08-14

Chapter 34. GNOME Applications

gnome-calculator-3.36.0

Introduction to GNOME Calculator

GNOME Calculator is a powerful graphical calculator with financial, logical and scientific modes. It uses a multiple precision package to do its arithmetic to give a high degree of accuracy.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-9.1 platform.

Package Information

GNOME Calculator Dependencies

Required

GTK+-3.24.22, gtksourceview4-4.6.1, itstool-2.0.6, libgee-0.20.3, and libsoup-2.70.0

Recommended

Vala-0.48.9

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gnome-calculator

Installation of GNOME Calculator

Install GNOME Calculator by running the following commands: 

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

meson --prefix=/usr .. &&
ninja

To test the results, issue: ninja test.

Now, as the root user: 

ninja install

Contents

Installed Programs: gcalccmd and gnome-calculator
Installed Library: libgcalc-2.so and libgci-1.so
Installed Directories: /usr/include/gcalc-2, /usr/include/gci-2, and /usr/share/help/*/gnome-calculator

Short Descriptions

gnome-calculator

is the official calculator of the GNOME Desktop.

gcalccmd

is a command line version of gnome-calculator.

Last updated on 2020-04-03 13:04:47 -0500