Packaging GNOME Launch Box

This tutorial will take you through the process of packaging the GNOME Launch Box application. Along the way, you'll see how to make the program relocatable, we'll statically link an unstable library into it, we'll relax a dependency using relaytool, write a specfile and finally create our finished package for distribution.

GNOME Launch Box is in a similar vein to QuickSilver for the Apple Mac. It can be bound to a key combination that when pressed, pops up a search window. You can select something to open by typing a part of its name. Launch Box uses various different libraries in order to compile a list of different things you might want to open: for instance, application menu items, web browser bookmarks, Evolution contacts and so on.

• Step 1 - Binary Relocatability
• Step 2 - Binary Portability
• Step 3 - Building the package
• Step 4 - Website design tips

You can view the final patch here. The patch works against Gnome Launch Box v0.1 (not the latest version).

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Related documentation

• Packagers Guide - in-depth documentation
• Autopackage Wiki - contains very useful tips for packagers!