EOG-40.0

Introduction to EOG

EOG is an application used for viewing and cataloging image files on the GNOME Desktop. It also has basic editing capabilites.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-10.1 platform.

Package Information

EOG Dependencies

Required

adwaita-icon-theme-3.38.0, Exempi-2.5.2, gnome-desktop-40.0, itstool-2.0.6, libjpeg-turbo-2.0.6, libpeas-1.30.0, and shared-mime-info-2.1

Recommended

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.33.2 and libportal-0.3

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

Installation of EOG

Install EOG by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

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

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

ninja install

Still as the root user, rebuild the cache database of MIME types handled by desktop files so Nautilus-40.0 will be able to open image files with EOG.

update-desktop-database

Command Explanations

-Dlibportal=false: This parameter disables building EOG with support for flatpak portals. Remove this parameter if you have libportal-0.3 installed and wish to have support for flatpak portals.

-Dgtk_doc=true: Use this option if GTK-Doc-1.33.2 is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Contents

Installed Program: eog
Installed Library: libeog.so
Installed Directories: /usr/include/eog-3.0 and /usr/{lib,share,share/gtk-doc/html,share/help/*}/eog

Short Descriptions

eog

is a fast and functional image viewer as well as an image cataloging program. It has basic editing capabilites

Last updated on 2021-04-08 15:16:47 -0500