Jhbuild Dependencies
This page will give details on the dependencies needed to build the latest GNOME with Jhbuild. In other words, if you install the packages below, then download and install jhbuild, jhbuild should 'just work' - you should not need to install any other packages. If you want to see a fairly thorough tutorial on building with jhbuild, see Building Gnome from CVS. Specific, recent build issues are tracked at JhbuildIssues.
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Please add new distros!
To add your own distro, please follow the following instructions:
- install the distro as close to default as possible.
- configure jhbuild to build 'meta-gnome-desktop' from the current gnome development moduleset (e.g. gnome-2.18.modules).
- run 'jhbuild bootstrap' (or install packages for your distribution, see below)
- run 'jhbuild sanitycheck'
- run 'jhbuild build'
at various points, jhbuild will fail because of missing packages. As you install these missing packages, and more and more of the build begins to succeed, take a note of what packages you needed to install, and add them to this page. Simple, no?
Available distros
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