Introduction to Gedit
The Gedit package contains a
lightweight UTF-8 text editor for the GNOME Desktop. It needs a group of packages to
be installed before Gedit itself.
This page will install all of them.
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properly if LFS or dependencies have been updated since the most
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Package Information
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Gedit requires several libraries:
Gedit Dependencies
Required
gsettings-desktop-schemas-49.1,
GTK-3.24.51, itstool-2.0.7,
libhandy-1.8.3, libpeas-1.36.0,
and libxml2-2.15.1
Recommended
gspell-1.14.0, Gvfs-1.56.1 (runtime),
ISO Codes-4.18.0, and PyGObject-3.52.3 (Python3 module)
Optional
GTK-Doc-1.35.1 (for documentation), Vala-0.56.18, Valgrind-3.26.0, and zeitgeist
Installation of Gedit
The first task is to install the needed libraries. Since all the
packages have the same build instructions, they can be built in one
go using a loop.
Note
When installing multiple packages in a script, the installation
needs to be done as the root user. There are three general
options that can be used to do this:
-
Run the entire script as the root user (not recommended).
-
Use the sudo
command from the Sudo-1.9.17p2 package.
-
Use su -c "command
arguments" (quotes required) which will ask
for the root password for every iteration of the loop.
One way to handle this situation is to create a short
bash function that
automatically selects the appropriate method. Once the command is
set in the environment, it does not need to be set again.
as_root()
{
if [ $EUID = 0 ]; then $*
elif [ -x /usr/bin/sudo ]; then sudo $*
else su -c \\"$*\\"
fi
}
export -f as_root
All of the packages come with a test suite. If you wish to execute
them, either comment out the rm -rf
... below, so that, after all the packages are
installed, you can come back to the corresponding directory and run
ninja test, or do
individual builds, running the tests for each of the packages.
Alternatively, you can uncomment the line #ninja test ..., and at the end,
check the test results with:
grep -A5 Ok: *test.log
Libgedit-amtk's test-action-map
test is known to fail.
First, start a subshell that will exit on error:
bash -e
The order of builds is important. Install Gedit dependencies by running the following
commands:
for package in \
libgedit-amtk-5.9.1.tar.bz2 \
libgedit-gtksourceview-299.5.0.tar.bz2 \
libgedit-gfls-0.3.0.tar.bz2 \
libgedit-tepl-6.13.0.tar.bz2
do
packagedir=${package%.tar*}
echo "Building $packagedir"
tar -xf ../$package
pushd $packagedir
cd build
meson setup .. \
--prefix=/usr \
--buildtype=release \
-D gtk_doc=false
ninja
#ninja test 2>&1 | tee ../../$packagedir-test.log
as_root ninja install
popd
rm -rf $packagedir
done
Finally, exit the shell that was started earlier:
exit
Now install gedit itself by
running the following commands:
cd build &&
meson setup .. \
--prefix=/usr \
--buildtype=release \
-D gtk_doc=false &&
ninja
To test the results, run ninja
test.
Now as the root user:
ninja install
Note
If you installed the package to your system using a “DESTDIR” method,
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/gschemas.compiled
was not updated/created. Create (or update) the file using the
following command as the root
user:
glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas
Command Explanations
--buildtype=release:
Specify a buildtype suitable for stable releases of the package, as
the default may produce unoptimized binaries.
-D gtk_doc=false: This
switch disables generating the API documentation. Omit this switch
if you have GTK-Doc-1.35.1 installed and wish to generate
the API documentation.