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$Id$
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This file contains some useful details on the installation from source code
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for GRAMPS. It does not cover installation of a pre-built binary package.
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For that use your package manager, the rest is already done by the packager.
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configure vs autogen scripts
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----------------------------
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If you are building from released tarball, you should be able to just
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run "./configure && make". However, if you're building from the SVN,
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the configure is not present. You should auto-generate it by
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running ./autogen.sh and then "make" and, finally, "make install".
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Running ./autogen.sh on this branch of gramps requires the following
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packages to be installed:
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* automake-1.9
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* gnome-common
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* intltool
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* libglib2.0-dev (may be called differently on other distros) and
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maybe something else. If autogen.sh fails, it should inform you what's
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missing.
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Regular vs local installation
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This version of gramps requires, among others, the two things to be done:
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gconf schemas and mime types for gramps MUST be properly installed.
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The usual ./configure, make, and make install as a root should do the trick.
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But be careful if you're using the non-default options or would like
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to install without being root.
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The latter is possible, but you should supply additional arguments to
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autogen or configure:
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--with-gconf-source=xml::$HOME/.gconf
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--with-gconf-schema-file-dir=$HOME
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--with-mime-dir=$HOME/.local/share/mime
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Most likely, such local install will also need some prefix with write
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permissions for you:
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--prefix=$HOME/my_gramps_path
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Whether you're doing local install or regular install,
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YOU MUST INSTALL GCONF SCHEMAS AND MIME TYPES.
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YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
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Installing under non-default prefix
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-----------------------------------
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As hinted above, the gconf schemas and mime types for gramps
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MUST be properly installed. The "proper install" means installing
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them where gconfd and shared mime system, respectively, will
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find them.
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By default, gconfd will look in these places:
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1. Whatever is returned by running:
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$ gconftool-2 --get-default-source
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2. The xml::$HOME/.gconf : this is a per-user setup, not system-wide
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or xml:merged:$HOME/.gconf : this is a per-user setup, not system-wide
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There is a number of ways to let gconfd know where else
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to look, but this is outside the scope of installing gramps.
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By default, the shared mime systems will look in these places:
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1. /usr/share/mime
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2. /usr/local/share/mime : this may be broken on some systems
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3. $HOME/.local/share/mime : this is a per-user setup, not system-wide
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Likewise, there's a number of ways to instruct the shared mime system
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to look in other places, but this is the whole other story.
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So if you install some place other than /usr/share, you will most
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likely need to add this option to autogen.sh/configure scripts:
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--with-mime-dir=/usr/share/mime
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Using the --prefix=/usr/share and installing as a root will most
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likely do everything correctly, so no extra care needs to be
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taken. You should take extra care only if you are installing under
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something like --prefix=/usr/local/my_gramps, /var/gramps123/blah, etc.
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Packager's issues
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------------------
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The above mentioned gconf schemas and mime types must be installed.
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However, the update-mime-database and the gconftool-2 calls to process
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the newly installed types and schemas must be done in POST-INSTALLATION.
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In packager's world, the install happens on packager's machine
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into something like /tmp/gramps-tmp. However, the postinstall
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should happen on the user's machine.
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To assist with that, there's an argument available in configure
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(or autogen, which will pass it to configure) which disables
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the gconf schema and mime type processing:
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--enable-packager-mode
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This argument should disable postinstall calls made during
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make install, and print a nasty warning during configure.
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IT IS PACKAGER'S RESPONSIBILITY to follow the advice given
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by the configure output and to copy the appropriate code
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from the src/data/Makefile.am into the post-install (and post-uninstall)
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of the particular packaging system.
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