TITLE: Compiling and Installing Gnome 1.4 LFS VERSION: 2.4.4 AUTHOR: Mike Labriola <labriomd@clarkson.edu> SYNOPSIS: Compiling and installing Gnome 1.4, including nautilus w/ mozilla. HINT: v0.9 - 04/20/2001 =============================================================================== I. Intro This hint should help you figure out what packages you need to download, and what order to compile them in in order to install Gnome 1.4 with Nautilus and Mozilla support. Your box might not already have some things installed that mine does, such as python and guile. Actually they're might be a bunch of things like that. If you get to a point where one of the configure scripts yells at you, go get the required packag(s) and compile them. =============================================================================== II. Get the stuff Ok, there's quite a list of stuff for you to download... First of all, I'll try and list some of the packages that you may or may not have already installed. This is just coming off the top of my head, so I doubt it's complete... libungif libjpeg libpng libtiff db bc python perl guile gmp gdbm librep xscreensaver Now, for the stuff I'll help you install... Most of these should be available from ftp.gnome.org (or a mirror) in /pub/GNOME/stable/releases/gnome-1.4/ or /pub/GNOME/unstable/sources/ The version I installed is in parenthesis GConf (1.0.0) ORBit (0.5.7) ammonite (1.0.0) audiofile (0.2.1) bonobo (1.0.2) bug-buddy (2.0) control-center (1.4.0.1) esound (0.2.22) freetype (2.0.2) gal (0.5) gdk-pixbuf (0.10.1) gdm (2.2.0) ggv (1.0) ghex (1.2) glade (0.6.2) glib (1.2.9) gnome-applets (1.4.0.1) gnome-audio (1.4.0) gnome-core (1.4.0.1) gnome-db (0.2.3) gnome-games (1.4.0.1) gnome-guile (0.20) gnome-libs (1.2.13) gnome-media (1.2.0) gnome-pim (1.4.0) gnome-print (0.28) gnome-python (1.4.0) gnome-user-docs (1.4.1) gnome-utils (1.4.0) gnome-vfs (1.0) gnomemm (1.1.15) gtk+ (1.2.9) gtk-engines (0.12) gtkhtml (0.8.3) gtkmm (1.2.5) gtop (1.0.13) imlib (1.9.10) libgda (0.2.3) libghttp (1.0.9) libglade (0.16) libgtop (1.0.13) libsigc++ (1.0.3) libunicode (0.4.gnome) libxml (1.8.11) mozilla-source (0.8.1 get this from mozilla.org, needed by nautilus) nautilus (1.0.2) oaf (0.6.5) panelmm (0.1) popt (1.6) rep-gtk (0.15) sawfish (0.38) scrollkeeper (0.2) xalf (0.7) =============================================================================== III. Compile time You might want to specify some compiler optimizations in CFLAGS before we start. At the very least you should do this: export CFLAGS=-O2 export CXXFLAGS=$CFLAGS This pretty much sets CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS to what they would have been... minus debugging. You probably don't really want debugging on all of Gnome (it would make it HUGE!!!) Ok, now let's get busy! Follow this list of installation instructions to the bottom (i know, it's long) and you'll have a fully functional install of Gnome 1.4 on you LFS system. :-) --------------------------------- - audiofile - --------------------------------- ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared make make install --------------------------------- - esound - --------------------------------- ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared make make install now you might want to edit etc.conf (in esd's sysconfdir, /usr/etc in this case). the soundcard i have in my box makes a loud *POP* every time i play a sound, so i like to tell esd not to terminate after a few seconds... --------------------------------- - glib - --------------------------------- ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared make make install --------------------------------- - gtk+ - --------------------------------- ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared make make install --------------------------------- - popt - --------------------------------- ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared make make install --------------------------------- - ImageMagick - --------------------------------- ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared make make install --------------------------------- - imlib - --------------------------------- ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared make make install --------------------------------- - gtk-engines - --------------------------------- ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared make make install --------------------------------- - ORBit - --------------------------------- ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared make make install --------------------------------- - libxml - --------------------------------- ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared make make install --------------------------------- - gnome-libs - --------------------------------- ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared --enable-prefer-db1 make make install --------------------------------- - scrollkeeper - --------------------------------- ./configure --prefix=/usr --localstatedir=/var --enable-shared make make install --------------------------------- - libgtop - --------------------------------- ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared make make install --------------------------------- - libghttp - --------------------------------- ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared make make install --------------------------------- - gdk-pixbuf - --------------------------------- ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared make make install --------------------------------- - libglade - --------------------------------- ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared make make install --------------------------------- - oaf - --------------------------------- ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared make make install --------------------------------- - gnome-print - --------------------------------- ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared make make install --------------------------------- - bonobo - --------------------------------- ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared make make install --------------------------------- - GConf - --------------------------------- ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared make make install --------------------------------- - libgda - --------------------------------- ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared make make install --------------------------------- - gnome-db - --------------------------------- ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared make make install --------------------------------- - gnome-vfs - --------------------------------- ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared make make install --------------------------------- - libunicode - --------------------------------- ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared make make install --------------------------------- - gal - --------------------------------- ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared make make install --------------------------------- - control-center - --------------------------------- ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared make make install --------------------------------- - gtkhtml - --------------------------------- ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared make make install --------------------------------- - gnome-core - --------------------------------- ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared make make install --------------------------------- - gnome-applets - --------------------------------- ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared make make install --------------------------------- - bug-buddy - --------------------------------- ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared make make install --------------------------------- - libsigc++ - --------------------------------- ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared make make install --------------------------------- - gtkmm - --------------------------------- ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared make make install --------------------------------- - gnomemm - --------------------------------- ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared make make install --------------------------------- - panelmm - --------------------------------- ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared make make install -------------------------------- - glade - -------------------------------- ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared --with-bonobo make make install --------------------------------- - rep-gtk - --------------------------------- ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared make make install --------------------------------- - gnome-python - --------------------------------- ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared make make install --------------------------------- - gnome-guile - --------------------------------- ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared make make install --------------------------------- - gnome-user-docs - --------------------------------- ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared make make install --------------------------------- - gnome-utils - --------------------------------- ran into some problems on this one... although it's not listed in the dependencies, the compilation process tries to use db2html. if you don't have that in your path, it bails. unfortunately, i couldn't figure out where to get it, but, i found a workaround. untar the nautilus sources. go into foo/nautilus-1.0.1.1/components/help/converters/gnome-db2html2/ and read the README. execute the gcc line displayed in there. it should make gnome-db2html2 in that directory. copy that to /usr/local/bin and then link it to /usr/local/bin/db2html. now it should compile just fine. i'm not sure how "correct" this is... but it did seem to work. however, since that's really not "db2html", keep track of that binary... if you install db2html later on, go remove that symlink (and the copied binary). if anyone knows where i was supposed to get the "real" db2html, please let me know. ;-) ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared --with-messages=/var/log/sys.log make make install --------------------------------- - gnome-pim - --------------------------------- ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared make make install --------------------------------- - gnome-media - --------------------------------- ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared make make install --------------------------------- - gnome-audio - --------------------------------- this one doesn't have a configure script... take a look at the Makefile if you don't trust it. it should be fine though, as it get all it's info from gnome-config make make install --------------------------------- - gnome-games - --------------------------------- ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared make make install --------------------------------- - gtop - --------------------------------- ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared make make install --------------------------------- - ggv - --------------------------------- ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared make make install --------------------------------- - ghex - --------------------------------- ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared make make install --------------------------------- - gdm - --------------------------------- ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared make make install --------------------------------- - sawfish - --------------------------------- ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared make make install --------------------------------- - xalf - --------------------------------- ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared make make install --------------------------------- - mozilla - --------------------------------- For source code and extra help, go to www.mozilla.org Ok, here's the deal. In order to make Nautilus and Mozilla play nice, we have to compile them a certain way. If you do something wrong, Nautilus will not be able to use Mozilla at all. Compiling this takes a bit of time, so I recommend starting the compilation right before bed and just letting it compile all night. Here we go... put this in foo/mozilla/.mozconfig # ...mozilla/.mozconfig # # See www.mozilla.org/build/unix.html for build instructions ac_add_options --disable-tests ac_add_options --disable-debug ac_add_options --enable-strip-libs ac_add_options --enable-cpp-rtti ac_add_options --enable-optimize # done with .mozconfig Now, build it like this: make -f client.mk build BUILD_MODULES=psm make -f client.mk build --------------------------------- - ammonite - --------------------------------- this package is only required if you --enable-eazel-services on Nautilus. it requires openSSL >= 0.9.5a ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared make make install --------------------------------- - freetype - --------------------------------- make setup CFG="--prefix=/usr" make make install --------------------------------- - nautilus - --------------------------------- you have to fill in <mozilla_lib> and <mozilla_inc> with the full path to wherever you installed mozilla. my sources are in /scrap/mozilla so <mozilla_lib> on my box is /scrap/mozilla/dist/bin and <mozilla_inc> is /scrap/mozilla/dist/include ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-eazel-services \ --with-mozilla-lib-place=<mozilla_lib> \ --with-mozilla-include-place=<mozilla_inc> make make install =============================================================================== IV. Epilougue Now that everything is installed, you just have to edit your .xinitrc to start gnome instead of whatever it's starting right now. If ~/.xinitrc doesn't exist, there should be a default one where you installed XFree86. On my box, the file is in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc. Copy that default file to ~/.xinitrc. Comment out all the lines under the "start some nice programs" comment, and add "exec gnome-session". Now just startx. Ah, Gnome 1.4 goodness. :-) Now you have a clean install of Gnome 1.4 on your system. Next on your list of chores will be to install some of the Gnome Fifth Toe 1.4 apps. These apps include things like gnumeric, gnucash, abiword, balsa, dia, galeon, gtm, gimp, and glimmer among others. I would include instructions for building all of Gnome Fifth Toe 1.4 in here as well, but I don't think it's needed. If you can install Gnome, Mozilla, and Nautilus from scratch, compiling the fifth toe apps should be a walk in the park! Good luck and enjoy Gnome!