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 dependencies have been updated since the most recent stable versions of the book.
Download (HTTP): https://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-desktop/42/gnome-desktop-42.3.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/sources/gnome-desktop/42/gnome-desktop-42.3.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 90921fcf386dee7b8f3a5a7bdc495d4d
Download size: 728 KB
Estimated disk space required: 26 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU
gsettings-desktop-schemas-42.0, GTK+-3.24.34, GTK-4.6.6, ISO Codes-4.11.0, itstool-2.0.7, libseccomp-2.5.4, libxml2-2.9.14, and xkeyboard-config-2.36
bubblewrap-0.6.2 (needed for thumbnailers in Nautilus) and gobject-introspection-1.72.0
User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gnome-desktop
Install GNOME Desktop by running the following commands:
mkdir build && cd build && meson --prefix=/usr \ --buildtype=release \ -Dgnome_distributor="BLFS" .. && 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.
-Dgnome_distributor="Some Name"
: Use
this parameter to supply a custom name in the “Distributor:” field of the “GNOME About”
display window.
-Dgtk_doc=true
: Use this parameter if
you wish to build the API documentation.
-Dinstalled_tests=true
: Use this
parameter you wish to enable the installed tests.