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Galeon-1.3.7

Introduction to Galeon

The Galeon package contains a GNOME browser that utilizes the Mozilla gecko rendering engine and presents the simplest interface possible for a browser.

Package information

Download (HTTP): http://telia.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/galeon/galeon-1.3.7.tar.gz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/mirrors/ftp.gnome.org/sources/galeon/1.3/galeon-1.3.7.tar.gz
Download size: 2.9 MB
Estimated Disk space required: 122.3 MB
Estimated build time: 1.95 SBU

Galeon dependencies

Required

libgnomeui-2.2.2, ScrollKeeper-0.3.12 and Mozilla-1.4

Installation of Galeon

Compiling must be done with the same compiler version and the same optimization settings that were used on Mozilla.

Install Galeon by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=$GNOME_PREFIX --sysconfdir=/etc/gnome \
--localstatedir=/var/lib &&
make &&
make install

The Galeon package contains galeon and galeon-config-tool.

Description

galeon

galeon sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH and MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME before executing galeon-bin.

galeon-config-tool

galeon-config-tool clears settings, installs schemas, removes schemas and fixes permissions in the GConf database.