gedit-2.2.1

Introduction to gedit

Download location (HTTP):       http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gedit/2.2/gedit-2.2.1.tar.bz2
Download location (FTP):        ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gedit/2.2/gedit-2.2.1.tar.bz2
Version used:                   2.2.1
Package size:                   1.5 MB
Estimated Disk space required:  16.2 MB
Estimated build time:           2.30 SBU

The gedit package contains a lightweight UTF-8 text editor for the GNOME desktop.

gedit depends on:
libgnomeui-2.2.0.1

Installation of gedit

Install gedit by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=$GNOME_PREFIX --localstatedir=/var/lib \ --sysconfdir=/etc/gnome && make && make install

Command explanations

--localstatedir=/var/lib : This switch puts scrollkeeper files in /var/lib/scrollkeeper instead of $GNOME_PREFIX/var/scrollkeeper.

--sysconfdir=/etc/gnome : This switch puts configuration files in /etc/gnome instead of $GNOME_PREFIX/etc.

Contents

The gedit package contains gedit.

Description