GNUSTEP

Guide to install GNUstep on GNU/Linux systems

The following packages are requirements to install GNUstep (the names can change with the operative system):

• libffi-dev
• libssl-dev
• libxml2-dev
• libxslt1-dev
• libjpeg62-dev
• libtiff4-dev
• libpng12-dev
• libungif4-dev
• libart-2.0-dev
• libcairo2-dev
• libfreetype6-dev
• libx11-dev
• libxft-dev
• libxmu-dev

The more easy way to install GNUstep is through the package gnustep-startup. The last version is available here. Once extracted the files, on a terminal go to the extracted folder and, with root permission:

./InstallGNUstep

This install GNUstep. Finished the instalation, you need to make sure the start of GNUstep's services. To do this, in the file rc.local, commonly in the path /etc, write the following code before the line exit 0 (you need root permission):

GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT=/usr/GNUstep/System

if [ -f $GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT/Tools/gdomap ]; then

$GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT/Tools/gdomap

fi

Now, in the file .profile or .bash_profile at your personal folder (this are hidden files) write:

. /usr/GNUstep/System/Library/Makefiles/GNUstep.sh

gdnc

gpbs

make_services

This is all. We recommend you install the app System Preferences to configure GNUstep. You can get this here.