Chapter 2. Installation

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Installing From Source

After you've installed all of the dependencies, download the libgnomedbmm source code, unpack it, and change to the newly created directory. libgnomedbmm can be built and installed with the following sequence of commands:

# ./configure
# make
# make install

The configure script will check to make sure all of the required dependencies are already installed. If you are missing any dependencies it will exit and display an error.

If you want to help develop libgnomedbmm or experiment with new features, you can also install libgnomedbmm from GNOME SVN. It is available from http://svn.gnome.org/svn/gnomemm/libgnomedbmm/trunk/.

Dependencies

Before attempting to install libgnomedbmm, you should first install these other packages:

  • libgnomedb 3.0

  • libgdamm 3.0

  • libsigc++ 2.0

  • gtkmm 2.4

These dependencies have their own dependencies, including the following applications and libraries:

  • pkg-config

  • glib

  • ATK

  • Pango