This document includes:
* General information
* Licensing
* Requirements
* Other components of GNOME
* Extending the documentation
* Reporting bugs
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* General information
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These are the GNOME libraries, the foundation for most of the
application of the GNOME project.
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* Licensing
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The GNOME libraries (libgnome, libgnomeui, gtk-xmhtml, zvt, vfs)
are released under the terms of the LGPL license, read the file
COPYING.LIB for more information.
The rest of the code is released under the terms of the GPL license,
read the file COPYING for more information.
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* Requirements
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To compile the GNOME libraries, as a minimum you must install:
- GNU gettext 0.10.35 ; gettext --version
ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu
- DocBook packages (for building the documentation only)
ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/docbook-tools/docware/
For more information on this, see:
http://niw-www.lanl.gov/~rosalia/mydocs/docbook-intro.html
- Gtk+ 1.2.xx ; gtk-config --version
ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gtk/
- Graphics libraries: libpng, libxpm, libtiff, libgif or libungif
libpng 1.0.3 ; ls -l /usr/lib/libpng.so.2.*
http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/
ftp://swrinde.nde.swri.edu/pub/png/src
zlib 1.1.3 ; ls -l /usr/lib/libz.so.*
http://www.gzip.org/zlib/
ftp://swrinde.nde.swri.edu/pub/png/src
libjpeg v6b ; ls -l /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.6*
http://www.ijg.org/
ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/
libtiff v3.4 ; ls -l /usr/lib/libtiff.so.*
http://www.libtiff.org/
ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/pub/libtiff/
libungif 4.1.0 ; ls -l /usr/lib/libungif.so.*
(Preferred. Not needed if giflib is installed)
http://prtr-13.ucsc.edu/~badger/software/libungif.shtml
ftp://prtr-13.ucsc.edu/pub/libungif/
giflib 4.1.0 ; ls -l /usr/lib/libgif.so.*
(not needed if libungif is installed)
http://prtr-13.ucsc.edu/~badger/software/giflib.shtml
ftp://prtr-13.ucsc.edu/pub/libungif/
xpm 3.4k ; ls -l /usr/X11/lib/libXpm.so.4.*
http://www.inria.fr/koala/lehors/xpm.html
ftp://koala.inria.fr/pub/xpm/
- DB 1.85, or DB 2.x with 1.86 compatibility enabled
http://www.sleepycat.com/
- Imlib ; imlib-config --version
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/latest/imlib
- ORBit 0.5.xx ; ls -l /usr/lib/libORBit.so.*
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/ORBit
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* Other components of GNOME
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Other components of GNOME that you might want to install to get a
minimal desktop are located in other packages:
gnome-libs (this package) ; gnome-config --version
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-libs
gnome-core ; gnome-panel --version
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-core
control-center ; gnomecc --version
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/control-center
mc ; mc --version
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/mc
Additional packages that work with Gnome are listed at:
http://www.gnome.org/applist/
The following packages are not part of Gnome but are convenient to
have:
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* Extending the Documentation
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If you plan on extending the documentation of GNOME, you might want to
get the DocBook packages:
DocBook packages
http://niw-www.lanl.gov/~rosalia/mydocs/docbook-intro.html
ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/docbook-tools/docware
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* Reporting bugs
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To report bugs on the GNOME system: either compilation problems,
or malfunctions in the code, please do use the "gnome-bug" program
(distributed in this package).
You can keep track of your bug, by checking the http://bugzilla.gnome.org/
web site.
