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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 \ --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 set the location of the PID file and the system bus socket to be in /run, instead of deprecated /var/run. Compile the package: make This package does come with a test suite, but it requires several packages that are not included in LFS. Instructions for running the test suite can be found in the BLFS book at . 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.{a,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