VTE-0.38.3

Introduction to VTE

The VTE package contains a termcap file implementation for terminal emulators.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.7 platform.

Package Information

VTE Dependencies

Required

GTK+-3.14.8 and libxml2-2.9.2

Recommended

Optional

Vala-0.26.2, Glade and GTK-Doc-1.21

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/vte

Installation of VTE

Install VTE by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr          \
            --sysconfdir=/etc      \
            --disable-static       \
            --enable-introspection &&
make

To test the results, issue make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--enable-introspection: This switch enables Gobject Introspection bindings. Remove if you don't have gobject-introspection-1.42.0 installed.

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Contents

Installed Program: vte-2.91 and gnome-pty-helper
Installed Library: libvte-2.91.so
Installed Directories: /usr/include/vte-2.91 and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/vte-2.91

Short Descriptions

vte-2.91

is a test application for the VTE libraries.

libvte-2.91.so

is a library which implements a terminal emulator widget for GTK+ 3.

Last updated on 2015-03-02 22:42:44 -0500