gnome-desktop-2.2.1

Introduction to gnome-desktop

Download location (HTTP):       http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-desktop/2.2/gnome-desktop-2.2.1.tar.bz2
Download location (FTP):        ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-desktop/2.2/gnome-desktop-2.2.1.tar.bz2
Version used:                   2.2.1
Package size:                   1 MB
Estimated Disk space required:  6.9 MB
Estimated build time:           0.69 SBU

The gnome-desktop package contains GNOME's .desktop files, the gnome-about program, man pages and GNOME's core graphics files and icons.

gnome-desktop depends on:
libgnomeui-2.2.0.1

Installation of gnome-desktop

Install gnome-desktop by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=$GNOME_PREFIX --sysconfdir=/etc/gnome && make && make install

Command explanations

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

Contents

The gnome-desktop package contains libgnome-desktopi-2 libraries and gnome-about.

Description