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/43/gnome-desktop-43.1.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/sources/gnome-desktop/43/gnome-desktop-43.1.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: c07b0ed4a66242f9c1269ff4bd0faefd
Download size: 748 KB
Estimated disk space required: 22 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU
gsettings-desktop-schemas-43.0, GTK+-3.24.36, GTK-4.8.3, ISO Codes-4.12.0, itstool-2.0.7, libseccomp-2.5.4, libxml2-2.10.3, and xkeyboard-config-2.38
bubblewrap-0.7.0 (needed for thumbnailers in Nautilus) and gobject-introspection-1.74.0
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 .. && 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.
-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.