Some days ago, Ken Taylor, a user of Gnome Commander, asked for support on the GCMD mailing list: He was struggling with the manual Gnome Commander installation on a recent CentOS 7 Linux. After some discussions he finally managed building and running it.
Ken was so kind to write down his successful attempt in the hope it can be helpful to other users, doing the same. In addition, the rpm package in the CentOS “nux” repo goes back on its initiative. Impatient CentOS users can also try this one.
But lets hear what Ken has to say:
To start with I built a new development virtual machine as follows:
CentOS7 from everything DVD - Selected: Development and Creative Workstation and added the following extra items:
I enabled the CentOS CR (continuous release) repo and updated. On this new, up to date machine I then:
In the resulting directory issue the command ./configure. I then
started to fill in the missing pieces using yum search to locate the
desired packages. If a -devel package is available - INSTALL IT (as I
learned later).
configure: error: gnome-doc-utils >= 0.3.2 not found
Installing:
gnome-doc-utils noarch 0.20.10-5.el7 base 288 k
Installing for dependencies:
gnome-doc-utils-stylesheets noarch 0.20.10-5.el7 base 152 k
checking if libgnome >= 2.0.0 exists... configure: error: no
Installing:
libgnome x86_64 2.32.1-9.el7 base 741 k
Installing for dependencies:
ORBit2 x86_64 2.14.19-13.el7 base 176 k
gnome-vfs2 x86_64 2.24.4-14.el7 base 839 k
libIDL x86_64 0.8.14-8.el7 base 87 k
libbonobo x86_64 2.32.1-7.el7 base 437 k
I am stuck at this point. I believe I have libgnome 2.32.1 installed and by my math 2.32.1 IS >= 2.0.0. I then decided to install the libgnome-devel package:
Installing:
libgnome-devel x86_64 2.32.1-9.el7 base 80 k
Installing for dependencies:
GConf2-devel x86_64 3.2.6-8.el7 base 110 k
ORBit2-devel x86_64 2.14.19-13.el7 base 174 k
gnome-vfs2-devel x86_64 2.24.4-14.el7 base 214 k
libIDL-devel x86_64 0.8.14-8.el7 base 20 k
libbonobo-devel x86_64 2.32.1-7.el7 base 454 k
That did the trick
checking if libgnomeui >= 2.4.0 exists... configure: error: no
This time I decided to install the -devel package first (which also installed the non-devel package)
Installing:
libgnomeui-devel x86_64 2.24.5-8.el7 base 260 k
Installing for dependencies:
docbook-style-dsssl noarch 1.79-18.el7 base 251 k
docbook-utils noarch 0.6.14-36.el7 base 71 k
gtk-doc noarch 1.19-3.el7 base 264 k
libart_lgpl x86_64 2.3.21-10.el7 base 67 k
libart_lgpl-devel x86_64 2.3.21-10.el7 base 24 k
libbonoboui x86_64 2.24.5-7.el7 base 342 k
libbonoboui-devel x86_64 2.24.5-7.el7 base 196 k
libglade2-devel x86_64 2.6.4-11.el7 base 52 k
libgnomecanvas x86_64 2.30.3-8.el7 base 226 k
libgnomecanvas-devel x86_64 2.30.3-8.el7 base 71 k
libgnomeui x86_64 2.24.5-8.el7 base 789 k
lynx x86_64 2.8.8-0.3.dev15.el7 base 1.4 M
openjade x86_64 1.3.2-45.el7 base 831 k
opensp x86_64 1.5.2-19.el7 base 874 k
perl-SGMLSpm noarch 1.03ii-31.el7 base 27 k
source-highlight x86_64 3.1.6-6.el7 base 611 k
That completes the missing pieces and parts. Then I issued the command:
make
That seems to have completed without error. I then issued the command:
make install
That barfed as I was not root :-(
sudo make install
Again, it appears to have completed OK.
I clicked on the gnome-commander icon on the menu under Applications; Accessories and low and behold GNOME COMMANDER RUNS!!!!!
That’s cool, isn’t it? :)
There is also an instruction given on GitHub from another user here.
