gedit-2.2.2

Introduction to gedit

The gedit package contains a lightweight UTF-8 text editor for the GNOME desktop.

Installation of gedit

Install gedit by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=$GNOME_PREFIX --localstatedir=/var/lib \
--sysconfdir=/etc/gnome &&
make &&
make install

Command explanations

--localstatedir=/var/lib: This switch puts ScrollKeeper files in /var/lib/scrollkeeper instead of $GNOME_PREFIX/var/scrollkeeper.

--sysconfdir=/etc/gnome: This switch puts configuration files in /etc/gnome instead of $GNOME_PREFIX/etc.

Contents

The gedit package contains gedit.

Description