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 D-Bus-&dbus-version; D-Bus <para>D-Bus is a message bus system, a simple way for applications to talk to one another. D-Bus supplies both a system daemon (for events such as "new hardware device added" or "printer queue changed") and a per-user-login-session daemon (for general IPC needs among user applications). Also, the message bus is built on top of a general one-to-one message passing framework, which can be used by any two applications to communicate directly (without going through the message bus daemon).</para> <segmentedlist> <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle> <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle> <seglistitem> <seg>&dbus-fin-sbu;</seg> <seg>&dbus-fin-du;</seg> </seglistitem> </segmentedlist> </sect2> <sect2 role="installation"> <title>Installation of D-Bus Prepare D-Bus for compilation: ./configure --prefix=/usr \ --sysconfdir=/etc \ --localstatedir=/var \ --runstatedir=/run \ --enable-user-session \ --disable-static \ --disable-doxygen-docs \ --disable-xml-docs \ --docdir=/usr/share/doc/dbus-&dbus-version; \ --with-system-socket=/run/dbus/system_bus_socket The meaning of the configure options: --runstatedir=/run and --with-system-socket=/run/dbus/system_bus_socket These cause the PID file and the system bus socket to be in /run, instead of the deprecated /var/run. --enable-user-session This ensures the D-Bus per-user service and socket unit files are installed for Systemd. They are not useful (but harmless) in a base LFS installation, however they can be used once systemd is rebuilt with PAM support in BLFS. Compile the package: make To test the results, issue: make check Many tests are disabled because they require additional packages that are not included in LFS. Instructions for running the comprehensive test suite can be found in the BLFS book. Install the package: make install Create a symlink so that D-Bus and systemd can use the same machine-id file: ln -sfv /etc/machine-id /var/lib/dbus Contents of D-Bus Installed programs Installed libraries Installed directories dbus-cleanup-sockets, dbus-daemon, dbus-launch, dbus-monitor, dbus-run-session, dbus-send, dbus-test-tool, dbus-update-activation-environment, and dbus-uuidgen libdbus-1.so /etc/dbus-1, /usr/include/dbus-1.0, /usr/lib/dbus-1.0, /usr/share/dbus-1, /usr/share/doc/dbus-&dbus-version;, and /var/lib/dbus Short Descriptions dbus-cleanup-sockets is used to remove leftover sockets in a directory dbus-cleanup-sockets dbus-daemon Is the D-Bus message bus daemon dbus-daemon dbus-launch Starts dbus-daemon from a shell script dbus-launch dbus-monitor Monitors messages passing through a D-Bus message bus dbus-monitor dbus-run-session Starts a session bus instance of dbus-daemon from a shell script and starts a specified program in that session dbus-run-session dbus-send Sends a message to a D-Bus message bus dbus-send dbus-test-tool Is a tool to help packages test D-Bus dbus-test-tool dbus-update-activation-environment Updates environment variables that will be set for D-Bus session services dbus-update-activation-environment dbus-uuidgen Generates a universally unique ID dbus-uuidgen libdbus-1 Contains API functions used to communicate with the D-Bus message bus libdbus-1