On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 09:42:59PM -0500, Dave Wagler wrote:
> I have a brand-new minimal LFS system. It boots and I can access the
> internet with lynx. Now I'm looking at desktops. Of those listed in BLFS, I
> would probably pick XFCE. However, my desktop of preference is Mate. It
> looks difficult, but doable (maybe).
>
> Has anyone on this list done a Mate install?
>
> Aside from that, the first thing I run into is a list of seven dependencies
> for the first package in the Mate build list. Six of them are actually in
> either LFS or BLFS. The other one is listed as gtk-doc-tools. Would this be
> the same as the GTK-Doc-1.19 package in BLFS? The dependency list has
> neither version numbers or source locations.
>
> Dave
I'm not a fan of desktop environments, but I took a look at a few
of the mate apps last november when I was reviewing my options re
gnome (in the end, mate didn't meet my needs at that time - I've
stayed with gucharmap and evince from gnome but dropped gucalctool
and also introspection). I built on top of a fairly complete
desktop, so some dependencies were already installed. Much of mate
is of no interest to me, so I have no doubt removed packages that
will prove necessary for things *you* want to build. At that time
I built the following (I think 1.5 was probably a development
release) :
mate-common-1.5.0
looks as if rarian is needed (scrollkeeper-config) for the doc
utils, but I had already built it
mate-doc-utils-1.5.0
libIDL-0.8.14 (is in BLFS)
mate-corba-1.4.0
mate-conf-1.4.0 was needed for mate-character-map from a git pull.
But the latter segfaulted and seemed to not be under active
development.
mate-icon-theme-1.5.0
mate-desktop-1.5.3
libmatekeyring-1.5.0
mate-document-viewer-1.5.0 ("atril", renamed from "evince" : it
worked ok).
mate-calc-1.5.0 - I found this no better than late versions of
gucalctool.
Note that I didn't attempt to built the help system, nor its
terminal emulator (I use rxvt-unicode), nor a file manager (I don't
see the point of those).
They used ./autogen.sh, some needed --sysfonfdir=/etc (to override
$PREFIX/etc), many needed --disable-static to get rid of static
libs, mate-document-viewer needed --disable-caja because I didn't
want to build that.
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