Seahorse-43.0

Introduction to Seahorse

Seahorse is a graphical interface for managing and using encryption keys. Currently it supports PGP keys (using GPG/GPGME) and SSH keys.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 12.1 platform.

Package Information

Seahorse Dependencies

Required

Gcr-3.41.2, GnuPG-2.4.4, GPGME-1.23.2, itstool-2.0.7, libhandy-1.8.3, libpwquality-1.4.5 and libsecret-0.21.3

Recommended

Optional

Avahi-0.8

Runtime Dependency

gnome-keyring-42.1

Installation of Seahorse

Install Seahorse by running the following commands:

sed -i -r 's:"(/apps):"/org/gnome\1:' data/*.xml &&

sed -i "s/'2.3.0'/'2.3.0', '2.4.0'/" meson.build &&

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

meson setup --prefix=/usr --buildtype=release .. &&
ninja

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

ninja install

Command Explanations

--buildtype=release: Specify a buildtype suitable for stable releases of the package, as the default may produce unoptimized binaries.

sed ... data/*.xml: This command fixes some deprecated entries in the schema templates.

sed ... meson.build: This command fixes building with GnuPG-2.4 installed.

Contents

Installed Program: seahorse
Installed Libraries: None
Installed Directories: /usr/{libexec,share,share/help/*}/seahorse

Short Descriptions

seahorse

is the graphical interface for managing and using encryption keys