The GNOME Desktop package contains a library that provides an API shared by several applications on the GNOME Desktop.
Development versions of BLFS may not build or run some packages properly if LFS or dependencies have been updated since the most recent stable versions of the books.
Download (HTTP): https://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-desktop/44/gnome-desktop-44.1.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: eda77690fcb351558ea0d1716a55e90b
Download size: 752 KB
Estimated disk space required: 23 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU
gsettings-desktop-schemas-47.1, GTK+-3.24.43, GTK-4.16.2, ISO Codes-4.17.0, itstool-2.0.7, libseccomp-2.5.5, libxml2-2.13.4, and xkeyboard-config-2.43
bubblewrap-0.10.0 (needed for thumbnailers in Nautilus) and GLib-2.82.1 (with GObject Introspection)
Install GNOME Desktop by running the following commands:
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
--buildtype=release
:
Specify a buildtype suitable for stable releases of the package, as
the default may produce unoptimized binaries.
-D gtk_doc=true
: Use this parameter if
you wish to build the API documentation.
-D installed_tests=true
: Use this
parameter you wish to enable the installed tests.