Evince is a document viewer for multiple document formats. It supports PDF, Postscript, DjVu, TIFF and DVI. It is useful for viewing documents of various types using one simple application instead of the multiple document viewers that once existed on the GNOME Desktop.
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Download (HTTP): https://download.gnome.org/sources/evince/46/evince-46.3.1.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: e017e3544751c2442020f4d10a39e24d
Download size: 2.8 MB
Estimated disk space required: 49 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU (Using parallelism=4)
adwaita-icon-theme-47.0, gsettings-desktop-schemas-47.1, GTK+-3.24.43, itstool-2.0.7, libhandy-1.8.3, libxml2-2.13.4, and OpenJPEG-2.5.2
gnome-keyring-46.2, GLib-2.82.2 (with GObject Introspection), libarchive-3.7.7, libsecret-0.21.4, and Poppler-24.09.0
Cups-2.4.11 (to enable printing if support is built into GTK+ 3), gnome-desktop-44.1, gspell-1.14.0, gst-plugins-base-1.24.8, Gi-DocGen-2024.1, libgxps-0.3.2, libtiff-4.7.0, texlive-20240312 (or install-tl-unx), DjVuLibre, libspectre, and Synctex
Install Evince by running the following commands:
mkdir build &&
cd build &&
CPPFLAGS+=" -I/opt/texlive/2024/include" \
meson setup --prefix=/usr \
--buildtype=release \
-D gtk_doc=false \
--wrap-mode=nodownload \
.. &&
ninja
If you have Gi-DocGen-2024.1 installed and wish to build the API documentation for this package, issue:
sed "/docs_dir/s@\$@ / 'evince-46.3.1'@" -i ../help/meson.build && meson configure -D gtk_doc=true && ninja
This package does not have a working test suite.
Now, as the root user:
ninja install
If you installed the package to your system using a “DESTDIR” method,
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/gschemas.compiled
was not updated/created. Create (or update) the file using the
following command as the root
user:
glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas
--buildtype=release:
Specify a buildtype suitable for stable releases of the package, as
the default may produce unoptimized binaries.
CPPFLAGS+="
-I/opt/texlive/2024/include": Make sure that meson can
find libkpathsea headers from TeXLive if it is installed. This has
no effect on systems without TeXLive installed.
--wrap-mode=nodownload:
This switch disables fetching any dependency: the build system
tries to fetch gi-docgen even if -D
gtk_doc=false is passed.
-D gtk_doc=false: Allow
building this package without Gi-DocGen-2024.1 installed. If you have
Gi-DocGen-2024.1 installed and you
wish to rebuild and install the API documentation, a meson configure command will
reset this option.
-D gspell=false: This switch turns off
support for the spell checking plugin.
-D introspection=false: Use this option
if you don't have built GLib-2.82.2 with
GObject Introspection and don't wish to have introspection support
built into Evince.
-D nautilus=false: This switch disables
building the Nautilus Plugin. Use
this switch if Nautilus is not
installed.
-D keyring=false: This switch disables
the use of libsecret. Use this
switch if libsecret is not
installed.
-D ps=enabled: Use this switch if
libspectre is installed and you
want to view PostScript files with Evince.