Installation of gnome-screensaver
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Note
Optional Features
If you have XScreenSaver
installed and wish to import any or all of the
“hacks” into gnome-screensaver themes, set the following
environment variable (modify it if XScreenSaver is installed in a non-standard
location):
XSAVERDIR=/usr/share/xscreensaver/config
Also add the following parameter to the configure script below:
--with-xscreensaverdir=$XSAVERDIR
Install gnome-screensaver by
running the following commands:
sed -i 's|etc/pam\.d"|etc"|' data/Makefile.in &&
./configure --prefix=$(pkg-config --variable=prefix ORBit-2.0) \
--sysconfdir=/etc/gnome/2.30.2 \
--libexecdir=$(pkg-config \
--variable=prefix ORBit-2.0)/lib/gnome-screensaver \
--with-pam-prefix=/etc &&
make
If you have XScreenSaver installed
and wish to import any or all of the “hacks” into gnome-screensaver themes, you'll need to
identify which “hacks” you
wish to import. The commands below will import all of them. If you
want to import less than all of them, modify the setting of the
XSAVERLIST environment variable below
(listing the desired hacks by filename without the extension, space
delimited) and issue the following commands:
mkdir xscreensavers &&
cd xscreensavers &&
XSAVERLIST="*" &&
for SAVERLIST in $(ls ${XSAVERDIR}/${XSAVERLIST}.xml); do
../data/migrate-xscreensaver-config.sh $SAVERLIST
done &&
unset XSAVERDIR
unset XSAVERLIST
unset SAVERLIST
cd ..
This package does not come with a test suite.
Now, as the root user:
make install
If you have xmlto installed, still
as the root user issuing the
following commands:
GNOMEDOCDIR="$(pkg-config \
--variable=prefix ORBit-2.0)/share/doc/gnome-screensaver-2.30.0" &&
install -v -m644 -D doc/gnome-screensaver.html \
${GNOMEDOCDIR}/gnome-screensaver.html &&
unset GNOMEDOCDIR
If you identified some, or all, XScreenSaver hacks to be imported into
gnome-screensaver, install them by
issuing the following commands as the root user:
install -v -m755 -d $(pkg-config --variable=prefix \
ORBit-2.0)/share/applications/screensavers/xscreensaver &&
install -v -m644 xscreensavers/*.desktop \
$(pkg-config --variable=prefix \
ORBit-2.0)/share/applications/screensavers/xscreensaver
Command Explanations
sed -i 's|etc/pam\.d"|etc|'
data/Makefile.in: This command is used so that an
erroneous message to copy the PAM configuration file is not
displayed.
--prefix=$(pkg-config --variable=prefix
ORBit-2.0): Setting the prefix using this parameter
instead of with $GNOME_PREFIX will
ensure that the prefix is consistent with the installation
environment and the package will be installed in the correct
location.
--sysconfdir=/etc/gnome/2.30.2: This
parameter causes the configuration files to be installed in
/etc/gnome/2.30.2 instead of
$GNOME_PREFIX/etc. Additionally (if
applicable), the parameter ensures that the GConf-2 database is correctly updated.
--libexecdir=$(pkg-config
--variable=prefix ORBit-2.0)/lib/gnome-screensaver:
This parameter causes the libexec files to be installed in the
preferred location of $GNOME_PREFIX/lib/gnome-screensaver instead of
$GNOME_PREFIX/libexec.
--with-pam-prefix=/etc:
This parameter is used so that the Linux-PAM configuration file for the
gnome-screensaver application is
installed in the correct location. You may omit this parameter if
you don't have Linux-PAM
installed, though it won't affect the build if you don't.
--with-xscreensaverdir=$XSAVERDIR: This
parameter will use the xscreensaver hack configs found in
$XSAVERDIR.