Seahorse-41.0

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-11.1 platform.

Package Information

Seahorse Dependencies

Required

Gcr-3.40.0, GnuPG-2.2.34, GPGME-1.17.0, itstool-2.0.7, libhandy-1.4.0, libpwquality-1.4.4 and libsecret-0.20.5

Recommended

Optional

Avahi-0.8

Runtime Dependency

gnome-keyring-40.0

User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/seahorse

Installation of Seahorse

Install Seahorse by running the following commands:

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

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

meson --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.

-Dldap-support=false: Add this switch if you have not installed openldap.

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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