Gcr-3.9.91

Introduction to Gcr

The Gcr package contains libraries used for displaying certificates and accessing key stores. It also provides the viewer for crypto files on the GNOME Desktop.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.4 platform.

Package Information

Gcr Dependencies

Required

GLib-2.36.4, Intltool-0.50.2, libgcrypt-1.5.3, libtasn1-3.3, and p11-kit-0.20.1

Recommended

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.19 and Valgrind

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gcr

Installation of Gcr

Install Gcr by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr     \
            --sysconfdir=/etc \
            --libexecdir=/usr/lib/gnome-keyring &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--without-gtk: Use this switch if you haven't installed GTK+-3.8.4.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Contents

Installed Program: gcr-viewer
Installed Libraries: libgck-1.so, libgcr-3.so, libgcr-base-3.so, and libmock-test-module.so
Installed Directories: /usr/include/gck-1, /usr/include/gcr-3, /usr/lib/gnome-keyring, /usr/share/gcr-3, /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gck, and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gcr-3

Short Descriptions

gcr-viewer

is used to view certificate and key files.

libgck-1.so

contains GObject bindings for PKCS#11.

libgcr-3.so

contains functions for high level crypto parsing.

Last updated on 2013-09-12 07:48:13 -0700