
This document includes:

    * General information
    * Licensing
    * Requirements
    * Other components of GNOME
    * Extending the documentation
    * Reporting bugs

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* General information
*

   These are the GNOME libraries, the foundation for most of the
application of the GNOME project.

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* Licensing
*

   The GNOME libraries (libgnome, libgnomeui, gtk-xmhtml, zvt, vfs)
are released under the terms of the LGPL license, read the file
COPYING.LIB for more information.

The rest of the code is released under the terms of the GPL license,
read the file COPYING for more information. 

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* Requirements
*

To compile the GNOME libraries, as a minimum you must install:

	- GNU gettext 0.10.35                    ; gettext --version

	   ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu

	- DocBook packages (for building the documentation only)

	  ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/docbook-tools/docware/

	  For more information on this, see:
	
	  http://nis-www.lanl.gov/~rosalia/mydocs/docbook-intro.html

	- Gtk+ 1.2.xx                            ; gtk-config --version

	   ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gtk/

	- Graphics libraries: libpng, libxpm, libtiff, libgif or libungif
  	    libpng               1.0.3           ; ls -l /usr/lib/libpng.so.2.*
  	       http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/
  	       ftp://swrinde.nde.swri.edu/pub/png/src
  	    zlib                 1.1.3           ; ls -l /usr/lib/libz.so.*
  	       http://www.gzip.org/zlib/
  	       ftp://swrinde.nde.swri.edu/pub/png/src
  	    libjpeg              v6b             ; ls -l /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.6*
  	       http://www.ijg.org/
  	       ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/
  	    libtiff              v3.4            ; ls -l /usr/lib/libtiff.so.*
  	       http://www.libtiff.org/
  	       ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/pub/libtiff/
  	    libungif             4.1.0           ; ls -l /usr/lib/libungif.so.*
	    (Preferred. Not needed if giflib is installed)
  	       http://prtr-13.ucsc.edu/~badger/software/libungif.shtml
  	       ftp://prtr-13.ucsc.edu/pub/libungif/
  	    giflib               4.1.0           ; ls -l /usr/lib/libgif.so.*
	    (not needed if libungif is installed)
  	       http://prtr-13.ucsc.edu/~badger/software/giflib.shtml
  	       ftp://prtr-13.ucsc.edu/pub/libungif/
  	    xpm                  3.4k            ; ls -l /usr/X11/lib/libXpm.so.4.*
  	       http://www.inria.fr/koala/lehors/xpm.html
  	       ftp://koala.inria.fr/pub/xpm/
  	    
       - DB 1.85, or DB 2.x with 1.86 compatibility enabled

	  http://www.sleepycat.com/

	- Imlib                                  ; imlib-config --version

	  ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/latest/imlib

	- ORBit 0.5.xx                           ; ls -l /usr/lib/libORBit.so.*

	  ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/ORBit

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* Other components of GNOME
*

Other components of GNOME that you might want to install to get a
minimal desktop are located in other packages:

	gnome-libs (this package)                ; gnome-config --version
	   ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-libs
	
	gnome-core                               ; gnome-panel --version
	   ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-core
	
	control-center                           ; gnomecc --version
	   ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/control-center
	
	mc                                       ; mc --version
	   ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/mc
	
	Additional packages that work with Gnome are listed at:
	   http://www.gnome.org/applist/

The following packages are not part of Gnome but are convenient to
have:

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* Extending the Documentation	
*

If you plan on extending the documentation of GNOME, you might want to
get the DocBook packages:

DocBook packages
   http://niw-www.lanl.gov/~rosalia/mydocs/docbook-intro.html
   ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/docbook-tools/docware


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* Reporting bugs
*

   To report bugs on the GNOME system: either compilation problems,
or malfunctions in the code, please do use the "gnome-bug" program
(distributed in this package).

   You can keep track of your bug, by checking the http://bugzilla.gnome.org/
web site.

