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gedit - The official text editor of GNOME ChangeLog

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http://www.gnome.org/projects/gedit/

HOWTO

# gedit 2.6.2 (for Gnome 2.6.x)
# ===========
# Slackware 9.0's 'gedit' package includes version 2.2.1 (for Gnome 2.2.x),
# 9.1's includes 2.4.0 (for Gnome 2.4.x), and 10.0's includes 2.6.1 (for
# Gnome 2.6.x).

# Prerequisites:
# make
# gcc
# binutils
# fileutils or coreutils
# gawk
# gconf
# intltool >= 0.29
# perl
# sed
# grep
# gettext
# aspell/pspell
# pkg-config
# libgnomeui-2.0 >= 2.6.0
# libglade-2.0 >= 2.3.6
# eel-2.0 >= 2.6.0
# gtksourceview-1.0 >= 1.0.0
# libgnomeprintui-2.2 >= 2.6.0
# popt

cd
test -f installed/gedit-2.6.2.tar.bz2 && mv installed/gedit-2.6.2.tar.bz2 .
test ! -f gedit-2.6.2.tar.bz2 &&
wget http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gedit/2.6/gedit-2.6.2.tar.bz2

# Verify tarball w/ md5sum:
echo "a4773bd9884371041cf6236f0fe1505f" ; md5sum gedit-2.6.2.tar.bz2

cd /usr/local/src
find -type d -maxdepth 1 -name "gedit-*" -exec rm -r {} \;
tar xjvf ~/gedit-2.6.2.tar.bz2
cd gedit-2.6.2
chown -R root.root .
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib

## If make fails with an error like this:
# /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.3/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld:
# cannot find -lssl
## re-run it like this:
# make LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/ssl/lib

make
removepkg gedit
make install
find /usr/share/locale -type f -name gedit-2.6.mo -exec rm {} \;
cd
mkdir -p -m 0700 installed
rm -f installed/gedit-*.tar.*
mv gedit-2.6.2.tar.bz2 installed/

# /usr/share/pixmaps/gedit-icon.png can be used as a desktop icon