Re: Install Using Synaptics On Ubuntu

[Ingolf Jandt]

> For example typing gnumail in the terminal doesn't load the .app? How  
> do I access the gnustep environment?
> 

My notebook pc running ubuntu is unfortunatly damaged for quite some time and I
never have time to have it done. But IIRC ubuntu has lots of symlinks in
/usr/bin and so to bring Gnustep-paths and LFS together (so I was near to
mentioning it in that strange base-splitup-thread), so even a direct call should
work without caring for gnustep setup.

Probably it is just a typo: The app is named GNUMail, not gnumail. So the
standard way to open it from the console is
"openapp GNUMail"
(after a ". /usr/GNUstep/System/Library/Makefiles/GNUstep.sh" if lacking in the
profile files).
Under ubuntu just "GNUMail" should do the job.

> how do I then access GNUstep development environment so I can develop  
> my own apps?
Have a look at the howtos. You only have to write a GNUMakefile besides your
sourcefiles (very easy in general). If you use ProjectCenter, the GNUstep IDE,
this is automated for you. Then call make (or use ProjectCenter's "Build"
button) to create an .app you can open with openapp. (If make complains about
lacking targets, do the ". /usr/GNUstep/System/Library/Makefiles/GNUstep.sh" of
above.)

Ingolf