The GNOME Desktop package contains a library that provides an API shared by several applications on the GNOME Desktop.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 12.0 platform.
Download (HTTP): https://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-desktop/44/gnome-desktop-44.0.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/sources/gnome-desktop/44/gnome-desktop-44.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 1f0b7281e462d6dfc8d3888fdaafd2ba
Download size: 748 KB
Estimated disk space required: 22 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU
gsettings-desktop-schemas-44.0, GTK+-3.24.38, GTK-4.12.0, ISO Codes-4.15.0, itstool-2.0.7, libseccomp-2.5.4, libxml2-2.10.4, and xkeyboard-config-2.39
bubblewrap-0.8.0 (needed for thumbnailers in Nautilus) and gobject-introspection-1.76.1
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.
-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.