Beyond Linux® From Scratch (System V Edition) - Version 11.2

Chapter 34. GNOME Applications

gnome-calculator-42.2

Introduction to GNOME Calculator

GNOME Calculator is a powerful graphical calculator with financial, logical and scientific modes. It uses a multiple precision package to do its arithmetic to give a high degree of accuracy.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-11.2 platform.

Package Information

GNOME Calculator Dependencies

Required

gtksourceview5-5.4.2, itstool-2.0.7, libadwaita-1.1.4, libgee-0.20.5, libhandy-1.6.3, and libsoup-2.74.2

Recommended

Vala-0.56.2

User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gnome-calculator

Installation of GNOME Calculator

Install GNOME Calculator by running the following commands: 

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

meson --prefix=/usr --buildtype=release .. &&
ninja

To test the results, issue: ninja test.

Now, as the root user: 

ninja install

Contents

Installed Programs: gcalccmd and gnome-calculator
Installed Library: libgcalc-2.so and libgci-1.so
Installed Directories: /usr/include/gcalc-2, /usr/include/gci-2, /usr/share/devhelp/books/{GCalc-2,GCi-1}, and /usr/share/help/*/gnome-calculator

Short Descriptions

gnome-calculator

is the official calculator of the GNOME Desktop

gcalccmd

is a command line version of gnome-calculator