Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 2012-01-16

Chapter 33. GNOME Additional Packages

system-tools-backends-2.9.4

Introduction to system-tools-backends

The system-tools-backends are a set of cross-platform scripts for Linux and other Unix systems. The backends provide a standard XML interface for modifying the configuration regardless of the distribution being used.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-6.5 platform.

Package Information

system-tools-backends Dependencies

Required

intltool-0.50.0, D-Bus GLib Bindings-0.98, and polkit-0.102

Optional

Net::DBus

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/system-tools-backends

Installation of system-tools-backends

[Note]

Note

The instructions below are based on installing the package into a GNOME-2 environment. If, for whatever reason, you're installing this package without having ORBit2 and the core GNOME-2 libraries installed, you'll need to modify the --prefix= parameter on the configure script to point to your desired installation path (e.g., --prefix=/usr).

Install system-tools-backends by running the following commands: 

./configure --prefix=$(pkg-config --variable=prefix ORBit-2.0) \
            --sysconfdir=/etc/gnome/2.30.2 &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Command Explanations

--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.

Contents

Installed Program: system-tools-backends
Installed Libraries: None
Installed Directories: $GNOME_PREFIX/share/system-tools-backends-2.0/{files, scripts/{Init,Network,Shares,Time,Users,Utils}}

Short Descriptions

System tools backend scripts

are configuration files, Perl and shell scripts used to perform setup of various desktop frontend processes and services.

Last updated on 2010-08-14 17:39:46 +0000