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Install an Evince's branch from source code

Yul

3/24/24, 2:48 PM

I would like to install a specific branch of Evince. That called persistent-highlight. I have tried with the following commands:

git clone https://gitlab.gnome.org/VirtuousCrane/evince.git
cd evince
sudo make && sudo make install

The terminal has given me back "make *** no targets specified and no makefile found. stop". I have tried also with:

./autogen.sh

With the result of "bash: ./autogen.sh: No such file or directory". The comand:

./configure

With the result of "bash: ./configure: No such file or directory". The comand:

sh ./autogen.sh

With the result of "sh: 0: cannot open ./autogen.sh: No such file". How could I install it? Sorry but I am a newbie

Thanks

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David

3/24/24, 3:10 PM

You may want to look into what the path is when you use ./

Hi-Angel

3/24/24, 10:50 PM

Please note that you forgot to `git checkout persistent-highlight`

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Archisman Panigrahi

3/24/24, 3:30 PM

Evince uses the Meson build system.

First, install it with

sudo apt install meson

Then, cd to the source directory and run the commands,

meson builddir --prefix=/usr/local
sudo ninja -C builddir install

To uninstall, run

sudo ninja -C builddir uninstall

Note: You will need to install all the build-dependencies of evince before compiling. For that, open Software and Sources, and enable Source Code. Run sudo apt update, and sudo apt-get build-dep evince to install all the build-dependencies.

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Hi-Angel

3/24/24, 10:41 PM

Sorry, but until it's edited that's a -1 from me. First of all, you are recommending the user to compile software as root. It is not a good idea in general, and they also will not be able to remove `builddir` later. On top of that, `ninja install` will create untracked files all over the system. Instead it's better to create a package. For example there's [this script](https://gist.github.com/Hi-Angel/45030ab89a2378b42511612cbe48d247) for creating a package from libinput sources which uses `ninja install` as well. Just rename libinput → evince, hardcode version and fix deps and it should work.

Hi-Angel

3/24/24, 10:45 PM

FTR, I don't ask actually rewriting a script, you can leave that to the OP, sure. But it's worth at least mentioning, because simply doing a `ninja install` or `make install` is only good when you really know what you're doing, and if you need to tell about that in an answer, then most likely the reader does not.

Archisman Panigrahi

3/24/24, 11:10 PM

@Hi-Angel Usually, `ninja uninstall` works. Feel free to write your own answer.

Yul

3/29/24, 11:22 AM

I tried it and the comand "sudo ninja -C ~/evince install" gives me: ninja: Entering directory `/home/alberto/evince' ninja: error: loading 'build.ninja': No such file or directory

Archisman Panigrahi

3/29/24, 2:07 PM

@Yul `cd` into the evince source code directory, and try the command `meson builddir --prefix=/usr/local`. Alternatively, check out the script in the comment above by Hi-Angel

Yul

3/30/24, 5:32 AM

@ArchismanPanigrahi Yes I did so. Thanks but It is becoming to difficoult for me :( I will use Okular. Thanks and have a nice day!

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