Evince-40.4
Introduction to Evince
Evince is a document viewer for
multiple document formats. It supports PDF, Postscript, DjVu, TIFF
and DVI. It is useful for viewing documents of various types using
one simple application instead of the multiple document viewers
that once existed on the GNOME
Desktop.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-11.0
platform.
Package Information
Evince Dependencies
Required
adwaita-icon-theme-40.1.1,
gsettings-desktop-schemas-40.0,
GTK+-3.24.30, itstool-2.0.6,
libhandy-1.2.3, libxml2-2.9.12, and OpenJPEG-2.4.0
Recommended
gnome-keyring-40.0, gobject-introspection-1.68.0,
libarchive-3.5.2, libsecret-0.20.4,
Nautilus-40.2 (to build the plugin), and
Poppler-21.08.0
Optional
Cups-2.3.3op2 (to enable printing if support is
built into GTK+ 3), gnome-desktop-40.4, gspell-1.8.4,
gst-plugins-base-1.18.4, GTK-Doc-1.33.2, libgxps-0.3.2,
libtiff-4.3.0, texlive-20210325 (or install-tl-unx), DjVuLibre, libspectre,
Synctex, and t1lib
User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/evince
Installation of Evince
First, make sure that meson can find TeXLive if it is installed.
This has no effect on systems without TeXLive installed.
export CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/texlive/2021/include" &&
export LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -L/opt/texlive/2021/lib"
Install Evince by running the
following commands:
mkdir build &&
cd build &&
meson --prefix=/usr --buildtype=release -Dgtk_doc=false .. &&
ninja
This package does not have a working testsuite.
Now, as the root user:
ninja install
![[Note]](../images/note.png)
Note
If you installed the package to your system using a “DESTDIR”
method, /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/gschemas.compiled
was not updated/created. Create (or update) the file using the
following command as the root
user:
glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas
Command Explanations
--buildtype=release:
Specify a buildtype suitable for stable releases of the package, as
the default may produce unoptimized binaries.
CPPFLAGS="..." LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS
...": If TeXLive has
been installed in /opt/texlive/2021
the configure script will find libkpathsea.so and enable the DVI backend, but
without this addition the compile will fail because it cannot find
the required headers. Adding this to a system where TeXLive has not been installed does not break
the build.
-Dgtk_doc=false: This
switch disables generating the gtk-doc API reference documentation.
If you have GTK-Doc-1.33.2 installed and wish to generate
the API reference documentation, remove this switch.
-Dgspell=false: This switch turns off
support for the spell checking plugin.
-Dintrospection=false: Use this option
if you don't have gobject-introspection-1.68.0
installed and don't wish to have introspection support built into
Evince.
-Dnautilus=false: This switch disables
building the Nautilus Plugin. Use
this switch if Nautilus is not
installed.
-Dkeyring=false: This switch disables
the use of libsecret. Use this
switch if libsecret is not
installed.
-Dps=enabled: Use this switch if
libspectre is installed and you
want to view PostScript files with Evince.
Contents
Installed Programs:
evince, evince-previewer, and
evince-thumbnailer
Installed Libraries:
libevdocument3.so, libevview3.so, and
/usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-3.0/libevince-properties-page.so
Installed Directories:
/usr/{include,lib,share}/evince,
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/{evince,libevdocument-3.0,libevview-3.0},
and /usr/share/help/*/evince
Short Descriptions
|
evince
|
is a multiple format document viewer
|
|
evince-previewer
|
is an applicaton that implements the printing previewer
|
|
evince-thumbnailer
|
is a simple program used to create thumbnail images of
supported documents
|
Last updated on