Gedit-3.32.2

Introduction to Gedit

The Gedit package contains a lightweight UTF-8 text editor for the GNOME Desktop.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-9.0 platform.

Package Information

Gedit Dependencies

Required

git-2.23.0, gsettings-desktop-schemas-3.32.0, gspell-1.8.1, gtksourceview4-4.2.0, itstool-2.0.6, and libpeas-1.22.0

Recommended

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.32, Vala-0.44.7, and zeitgeist

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gedit

Installation of Gedit

Install Gedit by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

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

To test the results, issue: ninja test.

Now, as the root user:

ninja install &&
glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas

Command Explanations

-Ddocumentation=true: Use this option to build the reference manual.

Contents

Installed Program: gedit
Installed Libraries: libgedit.so
Installed Directories: /usr/include/gedit-3.14 and /usr/{lib,libexec,share,share/gtk-doc/html,share/help/*}/gedit

Short Descriptions

gedit

is a lightweight text editor integrated with the GNOME Desktop.

Last updated on 2019-08-22 17:29:06 -0700