Beyond Linux® From Scratch (systemd Edition) - Version r12.4

Chapter 34. GNOME Applications

Seahorse-47.0.1

Introduction to Seahorse

Seahorse is a graphical interface for managing and using encryption keys. Currently it supports PGP keys (using GPG/GPGME) and SSH keys.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 12.4 platform.

Package Information

Seahorse Dependencies

Required

Gcr-3.41.2, GnuPG-2.4.8, gpgme-2.0.0, itstool-2.0.7, libhandy-1.8.3, libpwquality-1.4.5, libsecret-0.21.7, and Vala-0.56.18

Recommended

libsoup-3.6.5 and OpenSSH-10.0p1 (for managing SSH keys)

Optional

Avahi-0.8

Runtime Dependency

gnome-keyring-48.0

Installation of Seahorse

First, fix a build failure that occurs with gpgme-2.x: 

sed -i "/GPGME_EVENT_NEXT_TRUSTITEM/d" pgp/seahorse-gpgme.c

Install Seahorse by running the following commands: 

sed -i -r 's:"(/apps):"/org/gnome\1:' data/*.xml &&

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

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

To test the results, issue: ninja test.

Now, as the root user: 

ninja install

Command Explanations

--buildtype=release: Specify a buildtype suitable for stable releases of the package, as the default may produce unoptimized binaries.

sed ... data/*.xml: This command fixes some deprecated entries in the schema templates.

Contents

Installed Program: seahorse
Installed Libraries: None
Installed Directories: /usr/{libexec,share,share/help/*}/seahorse

Short Descriptions

seahorse

is the graphical interface for managing and using encryption keys