The VTE package contains a termcap file implementation for terminal emulators.
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Download (HTTP): https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte/-/archive/0.72.1/vte-0.72.1.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 5350f17263545942eb4d61b4a92e6e0b
Download size: 620 KB
Estimated disk space required: 14 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU (using parallelism=4; with tests)
GTK+-3.24.37, libxml2-2.10.4, and pcre2-10.42
ICU-73.1, GnuTLS-3.8.0, gobject-introspection-1.76.1, and Vala-0.56.7
FriBidi-1.0.12, Gi-DocGen-2023.1, and GTK-4.10.3
User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/vte
Install VTE by running the following commands:
mkdir build &&
cd build &&
meson setup --prefix=/usr \
--buildtype=release \
-Dfribidi=false \
-D_systemd=false &&
ninja
If you have Gi-DocGen-2023.1 installed and wish to build the API documentation for this package, issue:
sed -e "/docdir =/s@\$@/ 'vte-0.72.1'@" \
-e "/fatal-warnings/d" \
-i ../doc/reference/meson.build &&
meson configure -Ddocs=true &&
ninja
To test the results, issue ninja test.
Now, as the root user:
ninja install && rm -v /etc/profile.d/vte.*
--buildtype=release:
Specify a buildtype suitable for stable releases of the package, as
the default may produce unoptimized binaries.
rm -v /etc/profile.d/vte.*: This command removes two files installed in /etc/profile.d that have no use on a LFS system.
-Dfribidi=false: Omit this
switch if you want to enable bidirectional capabilities.
-Dgnutls=false: Add this switch if you
do not want to enable GnuTLS support.
-Dvapi=false: Add this switch if you do
not want to enable vala bindings.
-Dgtk4=true: Add this switch to build
the GTK4 widget.