Getting Gtranslator from the GNOME Git server

Git is a free distributed revision control, or software source code management project with an emphasis on being fast. Git was initially created by Linus Torvalds for Linux kernel development.

First, you need to set up the EDITOR environment variable, for example:

$ export EDITOR='emacs'

Make sure you have all dependencies of Gtranslator installed and ready. Now, grab gtranslator from the repository:

$ git clone git://git.gnome.org/gtranslator

That only gives read access to the repository. If you have an developer account and want write access (you must have been granted write access to the gtranslator module as an Gtranslator developer), you instead need to check out the source with:

$ git clone ssh://USERNAME@git.gnome.org/git/gtranslator

Now you will want to build and install. Run:

$ ./autogen.sh

If you want to enable Gtranslator API documentation generation, you can pass --enable-gtk-doc to the above autogen.sh script. Then continue just like you would work with a tarball package:

$ ./configure
$ make
$ su [password]
# make install

Coding Style

Gtranslator uses the GNU coding style. If you use Emacs as editor this is the default style.

See the GNU Coding Standards for more information.