Author: manuel
Date: 2005-05-22 04:06:17 -0600 (Sun, 22 May 2005)
New Revision: 4444
Modified:
trunk/BOOK/gnome/gnome-intro.xml
Log:
Tagged gnome-intro.xml
Modified: trunk/BOOK/gnome/gnome-intro.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/gnome/gnome-intro.xml 2005-05-22 10:01:09 UTC (rev 4443)
+++ trunk/BOOK/gnome/gnome-intro.xml 2005-05-22 10:06:17 UTC (rev 4444)
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
-<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
+<!DOCTYPE partintro PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd"; [
<!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
%general-entities;
@@ -10,64 +10,63 @@
<title>Introduction to GNOME</title>
<para>This chapter presents the instructions to install a complete
- <application>GNOME</application>-&gnome-version;&gnome-minor-version;
- desktop environment and a limited <application>GNOME</application> 1.4
- library environment that is sufficient to run
- <application>GNOME</application> 1.4 applications included in this book.
- The order of the pages follow the build order defined by the
- <application>GNOME</application> development team as published in previous
- versions of the <ulink
+ <application>GNOME</application>-&gnome-version;&gnome-minor-version;
+ desktop environment and a limited <application>GNOME</application> 1.4
+ library environment that is sufficient to run
+ <application>GNOME</application> 1.4 applications included in this book.
+ The order of the pages follow the build order defined by the
+ <application>GNOME</application> development team as published in previous
+ versions of the <ulink
url="http://www.gnome.org/start/&gnome-version;/notes/rninstallation.html";>
- release notes</ulink>. Note that the development team did not publish a
+ release notes</ulink>. Note that the development team did not publish a
build order for the &gnome-version;&gnome-minor-version; release.</para>
- <para>The installation of
- <application>GNOME</application>-&gnome-version;&gnome-minor-version;
- is a large undertaking and one we would like to see you complete with the
- least amount of stress. One of the first goals in this installation is to
- protect your previously installed software, especially if you are testing
- <application>GNOME</application> on your machine.
- <application>GNOME</application>-&gnome-version; packages utilize the
- <parameter>--prefix=option</parameter> passed to
- <command>configure</command>, so you will use that and an environment
- variable (<envar>GNOME_PREFIX</envar>) to add flexibility to the
- installation.</para>
+ <para>The installation of
+ <application>GNOME</application>-&gnome-version;&gnome-minor-version;
+ is a large undertaking and one we would like to see you complete with the
+ least amount of stress. One of the first goals in this installation is to
+ protect your previously installed software, especially if you are testing
+ <application>GNOME</application> on your machine.
+ <application>GNOME</application>-&gnome-version; packages utilize the
+ <option>--prefix=option</option> passed to <command>configure</command>,
+ so you will use that and an environment variable
(<envar>GNOME_PREFIX</envar>)
+ to add flexibility to the installation.</para>
- <para>To install <application>GNOME</application> as your desktop of choice,
- it is recommended that you install using
- <parameter>--prefix=/usr</parameter>. If you are not sure that you are going
- to keep the <application>GNOME</application> installation, or you think you
- will update to the newest releases as they become available, you should
- install with <parameter>--prefix=/opt/gnome-&gnome-version;</parameter>.
- Setting the environment variable and the additional edits required by the
- second option are covered on the pre-installation page.</para>
+ <para>To install <application>GNOME</application> as your desktop of choice,
+ it is recommended that you install using
+ <option>--prefix=/usr</option>. If you are not sure that you are going
+ to keep the <application>GNOME</application> installation, or you think you
+ will update to the newest releases as they become available, you should
+ install with <option>--prefix=/opt/gnome-&gnome-version;</option>.
+ Setting the environment variable and the additional edits required by the
+ second option are covered on the pre-installation page.</para>
<para>If you choose the second option, removal of
- <application>GNOME</application>-&gnome-version;&gnome-minor-version; is as
- easy as removing the edits from the pre-installation page and issuing the
+ <application>GNOME</application>-&gnome-version;&gnome-minor-version; is as
+ easy as removing the edits from the pre-installation page and issuing the
following command:</para>
-<screen><userinput>rm -rf /opt/gnome-&gnome-version; </userinput></screen>
+<screen role="root"><userinput>rm -rf
/opt/gnome-&gnome-version;</userinput></screen>
- <para>If your system was completely built per LFS and BLFS instructions,
- you have a very good chance of using
- <application>GNOME</application>-&gnome-version;&gnome-minor-version; after
- your first installation. If you are a typical LFS user, you have made
+ <para>If your system was completely built per LFS and BLFS instructions,
+ you have a very good chance of using
+ <application>GNOME</application>-&gnome-version;&gnome-minor-version; after
+ your first installation. If you are a typical LFS user, you have made
modifications to the instructions along the way knowing that you have to
- take those modifications into account on future installations. You should
- have no problems integrating
- <application>GNOME</application>-&gnome-version;&gnome-minor-version; into
- your unique setup, but you will have to install almost 50 packages before
- you can run <application>GNOME</application> through any testing (assuming
- your window manager is preinstalled and tested). You should anticipate that
- you will be rebuilding <application>GNOME</application> at least once to
+ take those modifications into account on future installations. You should
+ have no problems integrating
+ <application>GNOME</application>-&gnome-version;&gnome-minor-version; into
+ your unique setup, but you will have to install almost 50 packages before
+ you can run <application>GNOME</application> through any testing (assuming
+ your window manager is preinstalled and tested). You should anticipate that
+ you will be rebuilding <application>GNOME</application> at least once to
make adjustments for your setup.</para>
- <para>If you are building a <application>GNOME</application> 1.4 desktop
- environment, you would install only those libraries in the
- <application>GNOME</application> 1.4 chapter <emphasis>and</emphasis> any
- dependencies listed on those pages, whether labeled or not.
- <application>GNOME</application> packages without pages are simply
+ <para>If you are building a <application>GNOME</application> 1.4 desktop
+ environment, you would install only those libraries in the
+ <application>GNOME</application> 1.4 chapter <emphasis>and</emphasis> any
+ dependencies listed on those pages, whether labeled or not.
+ <application>GNOME</application> packages without pages are simply
installed with:</para>
<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/opt/gnome &&
@@ -77,17 +76,17 @@
<screen role='root'><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
- <para>These instructions are simplistic to facilitate removal of
- <application>GNOME</application> 1.4 from BLFS systems when it is no longer
- necessary. These instructions may be refined later to comply with BLFS
- standards for file locations, specifically
- <filename class='directory'>/opt/gnome/etc</filename> to
- <filename class='directory'>/etc</filename> and
- <filename class='directory'>/opt/gnome/var</filename> to
- <filename class='directory'>/var</filename>. You should consider using
- the <application>GNOME</application> 1.4 hint located at
- <ulink url="http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/"/> if you have no
- interest in
+ <para>These instructions are simplistic to facilitate removal of
+ <application>GNOME</application> 1.4 from BLFS systems when it is no longer
+ necessary. These instructions may be refined later to comply with BLFS
+ standards for file locations, specifically
+ <filename class='directory'>/opt/gnome/etc</filename> to
+ <filename class='directory'>/etc</filename> and
+ <filename class='directory'>/opt/gnome/var</filename> to
+ <filename class='directory'>/var</filename>. You should consider using
+ the <application>GNOME</application> 1.4 hint located at
+ <ulink url="http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/"/> if you have no
+ interest in
<application>GNOME</application>-&gnome-version;&gnome-minor-version;.</para>
</partintro>
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