Libgnome-2.10.0

Introduction to Libgnome

The libgnome package contains the libgnome library.

Package Information

Libgnome Dependencies

Required

GNOME Virtual File System-2.10.1 and EsounD-0.2.35

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.3

Installation of Libgnome

Install libgnome by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=`pkg-config --variable=prefix ORBit-2.0` \
    --sysconfdir=/etc/gnome --localstatedir=/var/lib &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--sysconfdir=/etc/gnome: This switch puts configuration files in /etc/gnome instead of $GNOME_PREFIX/etc.

--localstatedir=/var/lib: This switch sets LIBGNOME_LOCALSTATEDIR to /var/lib instead of $GNOME_PREFIX/var to synchronize with the GNOME Games installation and properly record high scores in /var/lib/games.

Contents

Installed Program: gnome-open
Installed Libraries: libgnome-2.[so,a] and the libmoniker_extra_2.[so,a] bonobo library
Installed Directories: several configuration directories under the /etc/gnome/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/ hierarchy, /etc/gnome/sound, GNOME_PREFIX/include/libgnome-2.0, and GNOME_PREFIX/share/gtk-doc/html/libgnome

Short Descriptions

libgnome-2.[so,a]

are the non-GUI portion of the GNOME libraries.

Last updated on 2005-08-01 13:29:19 -0600