GNOME Clipboard Manager - Documentation

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General Rule : Always read the INSTALL and README files!

It is possible that when you don't use a prefix, that you have to make symlinks from /usr/local to /usr (for example for the PanelApplet)

ln -s /usr/local/share/pixmaps/gcmapplet_small.png /usr/share/pixmaps/gcmapplet_small.png
ln -s /usr/local/share/pixmaps/gcmapplet.png /usr/share/pixmaps/gcmapplet.png
ln -s /usr/local/share/gnome-2.0/ui/GNOME_GcmApplet.xml /usr/share/gnome-2.0/ui/GNOME_GcmApplelibgtkhtml2_0-develt.xml
ln -s /usr/local/lib/bonobo/servers/GNOME_GcmApplet.server /usr/lib/bonobo/servers/GNOME_GcmApplet.server

Installing a package
- Check out the documentation of your distrubution.
Installing a release of GNOME Clipboard Manager
- GNU make and other tools
- A C compiler like gcc
- GNOME2-devel libs
- GTK+2-devel libs
- LibGConf2-devel libs
- LibXml2-devel
- LibGtkHtml2-devel
- The sourcecode of GCM-2 (the tar.gz file)
- tar zxvf gcm-release.tar.gz
- cd gcm-release
- ./configure --prefix=[your prefix]
- make
- su
- make install
- ldconfig
- exit
- [your prefix]/bin/gcmui
Installing the Clipboard Manager Applet
- The PanelApplet only works on GNOME2 desktops
- Install gcm-2 and libgcm first
- tar zxvf gcmapplet-release.tar.gz
- ./configure --prefix=[your prefix]
- make
- su
- make install
- exit
- Add the applet to the Panel using
  - Add to panel
    - Utilities
      - Clipboard Manager
From CVS
- Required software :
  - (CVS only) Autoconf, Automake etc
  - A C compiler (like gcc), GNU's make tools, etc
  - A complete GNOME 2.0 development environment
    - GNOME-Common
    - libGNOMEui-2 and GTK+-2
    - LibGNOMEUi-2 -and gtk+-2 development libs
    - GConf-2 and GConf-2 development libs
    - LibXml2 and LibXml2 development libs
    - Or, just install Garnome
- Getting the sources from CVS
```
export CVSROOT=':pserver:anonymous@cvs.gcm.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/gcm'
cvs login
cvs -z3 co -P gcm-2 libgcmtest gcmapplet
```
- cd gcm-2
- ./autogen.sh
- make
- su
- make install
- ldconfig
- cd launcher
- make install
- cd ..
- exit
- cd ..
- cd libgcmtest
- ./autogen.sh
- make
- su
- make install
- exit
- cd ..
- cd gcmapplet
- ./autogen.sh
- make
- su
- make install
- exit
- Add the applet to the Panel using
  - Add to panel
    - Utilities
      - Clipboard Manager

Files of GNOME Clipboard Manager

-> /usr/local/bin/gcm
-> /usr/local/bin/gcmui
-> /usr/local/bin/libgcmtest
-> /usr/local/include/
-> /usr/local/include/libgcm/libgcm.h
-> /usr/local/lib/libgcm.a
-> /usr/local/lib/libgcm.la
-> /usr/local/lib/libgcm.so
-> /usr/local/lib/libgcm.so.0
-> /usr/local/lib/libgcm.so.0.2.0
-> /usr/lib/pkgconfig/gcm.pc
-> /usr/local/libexec/gcmapplet

Detailed instructions on installing the CVS-sources of GNOME Clipboard Manager 2,0 for GNOME 2 desktops on a debian distrubution
- Switch your distrubution from stable to testing
- Install the libgnomeui-dev package using apt-get
- Install the libgtkhtml2-dev package using apt-get
- Get the sources from CVS
- cd gcm-2
- ./autogen.sh
- make
- su to root and do make install
Detailed instructions on installing the CVS-sources of GNOME Clipboard Manager 2.0 for GNOME 2 desktops on an RPM-based distrubution like the latest Mandrake 8.0 and RedHat 8.0
- Mandrake 9.0
  - Start the package management (Configuration -> Packaging -> Install Software)
  - Select the [x] Development branch and the [x] libgnomeui2_0-devel package inside that branch if not yet installed
  - Get the packages gnome-common, libgail17-devel from Mandrake cooker
  - su to root and install these packages
  - Get the sources from CVS
  - cd gcm-2
  - ./autogen.sh
  - make
  - su to root and do make install
- RedHat 8.0
  - There are RedHat 8.0 packages available here
  - To compile the CVS and/or the source tarbal you will have to install gnome-common and all GNOME-development packages. Then the normal ./autogen.sh && make && make install should work
- Debian
  - There are Debian packages available by Andrew Lau
  - apt-get install gcm gcmapplet
  - The normal compiling drill should also work on Debian (./autogen.sh && make && make install) once you have installed all required packages.