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				    Gnome2
				   --------

The Gnome2 module allows a perl developer to use the Gnome libraries.  Find out
more about Gnome+ at http://www.gnome.org.

The perl bindings follow the C API very closely, and the C reference
documentation should be considered the canonical source.

To discuss gtk2-perl, ask questions and flame/praise the authors, join
gtk-perl-list@gnome.org at lists.gnome.org.

Also have a look at the gtk2-perl website and sourceforge project page,
http://gtk2-perl.sourceforge.net


				 Installation
				--------------

To install this module type the following:

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test
   make install


To avoid installing to a system directory, since this is a beta release, you
can change the installation prefix at Makefile.PL time with

   perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/some/other/place

This will install the module to the subdirectory lib/perl5 under the given
prefix.  If this is not already in perl's include path, you'll need to tell
perl how to get to this library directory so you can use it; there are three
ways:

  in your environment (the easiest):
    PERL5LIB=/some/other/place/lib/perl5/site_perl:$PERL5LIB

  on the perl command line:
    perl -I /some/other/place/lib/perl5/site_perl yourscript

  in the code of your perl script:
    use lib '/some/other/place/lib/perl5/site_perl';


				 Dependencies
				--------------

This module requires these other modules and libraries:

  perl >= 5.8.0
  Glib >= 1.04 (perl module and requisite C libraries)
  Gtk2 >= 1.00 (perl module and requisite C libraries)
  Gnome2::Canvas >= 1.00 (perl module and requisite C libraries)
  Gnome2::VFS >= 1.00 (perl module and requisite C libraries)
  libgnomeui > 2.x (C library) and dependencies
  libbonoboui > 2.x (C library) and dependencies

To build this module from source, you'll also need:

  ExtUtils::Depends >= 0.20
  ExtUtils::PkgConfig >= 1.03

				   Copyright
				  -----------

Copyright (C) 2003-2006 by the gtk2-perl team (see the file AUTHORS)