gnome-terminal-2.2.1

Introduction to gnome-terminal

Download location (HTTP):       http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-terminal/2.2/gnome-terminal-2.2.1.tar.bz2
Download location (FTP):        ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-terminal/2.2/gnome-terminal-2.2.1.tar.bz2
Version used:                   2.2.1
Package size:                   854 KB
Estimated Disk space required:  8.7 MB
Estimated build time:           0.79 SBU

The gnome-terminal package contains the console. This is useful for executing programs from a command prompt.

gnome-terminal depends on:
libgnomeui-2.2.0.1, startup-notification-0.5 and vte-0.10.26

Installation of gnome-terminal

Install gnome-terminal 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 gnome-terminal package contains gnome-terminal.

Description

gnome-terminal

gnome-terminal provides the command prompt in the GNOME environment.