GARNOME is to be built and installed in a manner that does not corrupt
your existing installed software.
These instructions describe how to build and install GARNOME within a
separate directory tree structure, isolated from all other software
installed on the system.
PREPARATION
===========
As root:
* Create a new user account to build and administer the GARNOME software
For example:
user = garnome
group = garnome
* create a work directory
For example,
/usr/local/garnome-2.10.x
where x = the current version of the software
* modify the ownership and permissions of this directory
chown garnome.garnome /usr/local/garnome-2.10.x
chmod 755 /usr/local/garnome-2.10.x
BUILD - INSTALL
===============
As garnome:
* cd /usr/local/garome-2.10.x
* unpack the garball in this directory
bunzip2 -dc garnome-2.10.x.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -
* cd garnome-2.10.x
* Read the README
* Read it again, carefully [:-)]
* modify the main_prefix in gar.conf.mk
main_prefix ?= /usr/local/garnome-2.10.x
All GARNOME applications will be installed under
/usr/local/garnome-2.10.x
* Build the software
following the instructions in the README.
POST-INSTALL
============
As root:
* create an executable shell script
/usr/local/bin/garome-session
to set up environment variables and run the GARNOME version of
gnome-session:
#!/bin/sh
GARNOME=/usr/local/garnome-2.10.x
GNOME2_PATH=$GARNOME
PATH=$GARNOME/bin:$PATH
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$GARNOME/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
PYTHONPATH=$GARNOME/lib/python2.3/site-packages:$GARNOME/lib/python2.3/site-packages/gtk-2.0
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$GARNOME/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig
XDG_DATA_DIRS=$GARNOME/share:/usr/share
XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=$GARNOME/etc/xdg
GDK_USE_XFT=1
export GNOME2_PATH PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH PYTHONPATH
PKG_CONFIG_PATH GDK_USE_XFT XDG_DATA_DIRS XDG_CONFIG_DIRS
exec $GARNOME/bin/gnome-session
If you are running PYTHON-2.4, edit the PYTHON-specific lines, replacing
2.3 -> 2.4
* chmod +x /usr/local/bin/garnome-session
RUNNING GARNOME
===============
As a user with:
* command line log in
[log in / manually run startx]
- In your home directory, create a file named .xinitrc
#!/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/garnome-2.10.x/bin:$PATH
/usr/local/bin/garnome-session
If you wish to start up a dbus session when GARNOME is launched,
change the last line to
dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session
/usr/local/bin/garnome-session
You are now ready to run GARNOME
- log out completely
- log in
- startx
* XDM log in
[GUI based]
- In your home directory, create a file named .xsession with the same
contents as .xinitrc described above.
You are now ready to run GARNOME
- log out
- log in
-Joseph
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