gnome-shell-3.28.3

Introduction to GNOME Shell

The GNOME Shell is the core user interface of the GNOME Desktop environment.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-8.3 platform.

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gnome-shell/3.28/gnome-shell-3.28.3.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gnome-shell/3.28/gnome-shell-3.28.3.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: b78ffdcf65b02c88ed6f09a68aed8baf
Download size: 1.4 MB
Estimated disk space required: 64 MB
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU

Install GNOME Shell by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

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

To test the results, issue: ninja test. You must be running an X session to run the tests. Some will fail if GDM-3.28.3 is not installed.

Now, as the root user:

ninja install

Installed Programs: gnome-shell, gnome-shell-extension-prefs, gnome-shell-extension-tool, and gnome-shell-perf-tool

Installed Libraries: libgnome-shell-browser-plugin.so (Browser Plugin)

Installed Directories: /usr/lib/gnome-shell, /usr/share/gnome-shell, /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/{shell,st}, and /usr/share/xdg-desktop-portal/

gnome-shell

provides the core user interface functions for the GNOME 3 Desktop.

Last updated on 2018-08-30 16:17:00 -0700