#### Beyond Linux® From Scratch (System V Edition) - Version 12.1

### Chapter 34. GNOME Applications

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# Seahorse-43.0

## 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 12.1 platform.

### Package Information

- Download (HTTP): https://download.gnome.org/sources/seahorse/43/seahorse-43.0.tar.xz

- Download MD5 sum: efa9fea2e1c4291c39d509eb366b9a56

- Download size: 1.3 MB

- Estimated disk space required: 43 MB

- Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU (Using parallelism=4)

### Seahorse Dependencies

#### Required

Gcr-3.41.2, GnuPG-2.4.4, GPGME-1.23.2, itstool-2.0.7, libhandy-1.8.3, libpwquality-1.4.5 and libsecret-0.21.3

#### Recommended

libsoup-3.4.4, p11-kit-0.25.3, OpenSSH-9.6p1 (for managing SSH keys) and Vala-0.56.14

#### Optional

Avahi-0.8

#### Runtime Dependency

gnome-keyring-42.1

## Installation of Seahorse

Install Seahorse by running the following commands:

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

    sed -i "s/'2.3.0'/'2.3.0', '2.4.0'/" meson.build &&

    mkdir build &&
    cd    build &&

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

This package does not come with a test suite.

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.

sed ... meson.build: This command fixes building with GnuPG-2.4 installed.

## 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

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