scrollkeeper-0.3.11

Introduction to scrollkeeper

Download location (HTTP):       http://telia.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/scrollkeeper/scrollkeeper-0.3.11.tar.gz
Download location (FTP):        ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/scrollkeeper/0.3/scrollkeeper-0.3.11.tar.bz2
Version used:                   0.3.11
Package size:                   432 KB
Estimated Disk space required:  4.5 MB
Estimated build time:           0.20 SBU

The scrollkeeper package contains a cataloging system for documentation. This is useful for managing documentation metadata and providing an API to help browsers find, sort and search the document catalog.

scrollkeeper depends on:
libxml2-2.5.6, libxslt-1.0.29, intltool-0.25 and xml-dtd-4.2

Installation of scrollkeeper

Install scrollkeeper by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc \
--localstatedir=/var --disable-static \
--with-omfdirs=/usr/share/omf:/opt/gnome/share/omf:\
/opt/kde/share/omf:/opt/gnome-2.2/share/omf &&
make &&
make install 

Command explanations

--sysconfdir=/etc : This switch puts the configuration files in /etc/scrollkeeper.

--localstatedir=/var : This switch puts scrollkeepers database directory in /var/lib/scrollkeeper.

--disable-static : This switch prevents the static library from being built.

--omfdirs=/usr/share/omf:/opt/gnome/share/omf:/opt/kde/share/omf:/opt/gnome-2.2/share/omf : This switch sets all the locations for OMF files for scrollkeeper.

Contents

The scrollkeeper package contains libscrollkeeper libraries and utility scripts.

Description

scrollkeeper libraries

scrollkeeper libraries provide the API necessary for help browsers to interact with documentation written to utilize scrollkeeper.

utility scripts

utility scripts for performing installation, building, getting and updating of table of contents files.