Beagle

Installing for specific distributions

In many cases there are precompiled binaries for various distributions, or special instructions on how to build Beagle on a specific platform. If you're not interested in hacking on Beagle but just want to try it out, check out these pages first.

Note: Beagle is currently shipped with all major linux distributions including those listed below. The installation from packages has become relatively straight forward and similar to installation of other packages. As a side effect, these pages are not actively maintained anymore and may contain outdated information.

• Debian
• Fedora Core
• Foresight Desktop
• Gentoo
• MandrivaLinux (formerly MandrakeLinux)
• SUSE
• Ubuntu
• Archlinux

Building Beagle from source

Installing Dependencies

If you plan on building Beagle from source, make sure you have installed all of the required software before trying to build. Exactly how this software is packaged varies from distribution to distribution. Look at the specific distro pages above to see what you need.

Getting the Source

You have two options for getting the source: from released tarballs or from the upstream development branch in Subversion (SVN). If you are planning on hacking on Beagle, we suggest you check out from SVN. Otherwise, if you are just building Beagle for your own use, a tarball is often easier, but the code in SVN is more up-to-date.

Downloading Released Source Code As A Tarball

You can always download the latest tarball release from the GNOME servers.

Older versions of Beagle are also available.

Getting Development Source Code From SVN

You can check out the latest sources from GNOME SVN.

If you do not have a GNOME subversion account, check out the code anonymously:

$ svn checkout http://svn.gnome.org/svn/beagle/trunk/beagle

If you do have an account:

$ svn checkout svn+ssh://svn.gnome.org/svn/beagle/trunk/beagle

Building the Source

To compile Beagle, from the source directory run:

$ ./configure (or ./autogen.sh if you are building from SVN)
$ make
$ su -c "make install"

Enter the root password when prompted.

If Beagle is having trouble locating a dependency that you have already installed, you may need to adjust your PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable:

$ export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig

If you have any other pkgconfig directories (in /opt for example), append those to the line above.

Once you've successfully installed Beagle, you can move on to the next step: Starting the Beagle daemon