2023-03-26

Installation of "xournal" (old program) in RHEL9.1 (Redhat Enterprise, actually its Springdale Linux form).

The available packages have the new "xournalpp" which is much better for pdf editing and has a lot of features. 
However, plain old "xournal" was/is rather nice for stylus writing - plenty of functions available by icon near the writing area, and it works nicely with my pen's delete button 'out of the box'.

It needed some packages installing, a non-packaged library compiling/installing, and then itself. 



# dnf install  autoconf automake gtk2 gtk2-devel poppler-glib poppler-glib-devel gnome-common  intltool gtk-doc glib2 glib2-devel pango poppler-glib-devel libart_lgpl libart_lgpl-devel 

$ cd /tmp
$ wget https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/libgnomecanvas/-/archive/master/libgnomecanvas-master.tar.gz
$ tar -xzf libgnomecanvas-master.tar.gz
$ cd libgnomecanvas-master
$ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local/ --libdir=/usr/local/lib64 
$ make 
# make install 

$ cd /tmp
$ wget https://kumisystems.dl.sourceforge.net/project/xournal/xournal/0.4.8.2016/xournal-0.4.8.2016.tar.gz
$ tar -xzf xournal-0.4.8.2016.tar.gz
$ cd xournal-0.4.8.2016
$ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local/ --libdir=/usr/local/lib64 
$ make 
# make install 

# echo /usr/local/lib64  >/etc/ld.so.conf.d/usr-local.conf  
# ldconfig 


Initial problems were caused by:
  pkg-config  not finding libgnomecanvas because 'make' defaulted to /usr/local/lib instead of /usr/local/lib64 for the libraries and the pkgconfig directories; 
  /usr/local/lib*  isn't on the LD path in RHEL ... so we add it