How to install and run Evince from tar.gz I am trying to build Evince so that I can alter slightly (without needing new dependencies). I don't want it to run in a sandbox; I want it to run with other applications on my system (I had a pretty bad time with JHBuild anyways). I download the tar.gz and extract it in the Download folder. I run `./configure`, and install all the missing packages Then I run `make` and then `make install` Then in `/usr/local/bin`, I try running `./evince`, but this error is returned: symbol lookup error: ./evince: undefined symbol: ev_view_set_enable_spellchecking which is function in Evince. What am I doing wrong?

Make sure that you have gspell installed in version >= 1.6.0.

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Alternatively, if you don't care about this feature, try `./configure --without-gspell` and then make && make install.

I also strongly suggest you to use a packaging system from your distribution to prepare a package instead of installing binaries directly into the system. Firstly, you avoid the mess in the filesystem, secondly your distribution most likely provides some paches or configuration options which already handle this problem.