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Building & Installing Geary
===========================
Building
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Geary uses the Meson <http://mesonbuild.com> and Ninja
<https://ninja-build.org> build systems. To build Geary, run the
following commands from the top-level directory of the source code
repository:
meson build
ninja -C build
A convenience Makefile for development only is also provided. To use
it, simply invoke make from the top-level directory.
Dependencies
------------
Building Geary requires the following major libraries and tools:
* GTK+ 3
* WebKitGTK+ 2
* SQLite 3
* Vala
See the `meson.build` file in the top-level directory for the complete
list of required dependencies and minimum versions.
Geary also requires SQLite to be built with the compiler flag
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`-DSQLITE_ENABLE_FTS3`.
All required libraries and tools are available from major Linux
distribution's package repositories:
Installing dependencies on Fedora
---------------------------------
Install them by running this command:
sudo yum install meson vala \
desktop-file-utils enchant2-devel folks-devel gcr-devel \
glib2-devel gmime-devel gnome-online-accounts-devel \
gspell-devel gtk3-devel iso-codes-devel json-glib-devel \
libappstream-glib-devel libcanberra-devel libgee-devel \
libhandy-devel libsecret-devel libunwind-devel libxml2-devel \
libytnef-devel sqlite-devel webkitgtk4-devel
Installing dependencies on Ubuntu/Debian
----------------------------------------
Install them by running this command:
sudo apt-get install meson build-essential valac \
desktop-file-utils iso-codes gettext libcanberra-dev \
libappstream-glib-dev libenchant-dev libfolks-dev libgcr-3-dev libgee-0.8-dev \
libglib2.0-dev libgmime-2.6-dev libgoa-1.0-dev libgspell-1-dev \
libgtk-3-dev libjson-glib-dev libhandy-dev libsecret-1-dev \
libsqlite3-dev libunwind-dev libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev \
libxml2-dev libytnef0-dev
And for Ubuntu Unity integration:
sudo apt-get install libmessaging-menu-dev libunity-dev
Running
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If you wish to try Geary before installing it, you may execute it directly
from its build directory:
./build/src/geary
Note that certain desktop integration (such as being listed in an
application menu) requires full installation.
Installation
------------
After Geary has built, install it by invoking the install target:
ninja -C build install
After installation, it can be uninstalled in the same way:
ninja -C build uninstall
By default, Geary will install under /usr/local. To install to a
different directory, set pass the --prefix to meson when performing
the initial configuration step:
meson --prefix=/usr -C build
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Copyright 2016 Software Freedom Conservancy Inc.
Copyright 2018 Michael Gratton <mike@vee.net>