Beyond Linux® From Scratch (System V Edition) - Version r11.0-249

Chapter 33. GNOME Libraries and Desktop

gnome-bluetooth-3.34.5

Introduction to GNOME Bluetooth

The GNOME Bluetooth package contains tools for managing and manipulating Bluetooth devices using the GNOME Desktop.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-11.0 platform.

Package Information

GNOME Bluetooth Dependencies

Required

GTK+-3.24.30, itstool-2.0.7, libcanberra-0.30, and libnotify-0.7.9

Recommended

gobject-introspection-1.70.0

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.33.2 and dbusmock-0.24.1

Runtime Dependencies

BlueZ-5.62 and elogind-246.10

User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gnome-bluetooth

Installation of GNOME Bluetooth

Install GNOME Bluetooth by running the following commands: 

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

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

To test the results, issue: ninja test.

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.

Contents

Installed Programs: bluetooth-sendto
Installed Libraries: libgnome-bluetooth.so
Installed Directories: /usr/include/gnome-bluetooth and /usr/share/gnome-bluetooth

Short Descriptions

bluetooth-sendto

is a GTK+ application for transferring files over Bluetooth

libgnome-bluetooth.so

contains the GNOME Bluetooth API functions

Last updated on Mon Aug 30 16:07:53 2021