8.72. D-Bus-1.12.20

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# 8.72. D-Bus-1.12.20

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).

Approximate build time: 0.2 SBU
Required disk space: 18 MB

## 8.72.1. Installation of D-Bus

Prepare D-Bus for compilation:

    ./configure --prefix=/usr                        \
                --sysconfdir=/etc                    \
                --localstatedir=/var                 \
                --disable-static                     \
                --disable-doxygen-docs               \
                --disable-xml-docs                   \
                --docdir=/usr/share/doc/dbus-1.12.20 \
                --with-console-auth-dir=/run/console \
                --with-system-pid-file=/run/dbus/pid \
                --with-system-socket=/run/dbus/system_bus_socket

The meaning of the configure options:

`--with-console-auth-dir=/run/console`

  This specifies the location of the ConsoleKit authorization directory.

`--with-system-pid-file=/run/dbus/pid` 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 https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/11.0/general/dbus.html.

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

## 8.72.2. Contents of D-Bus

Installed programs: dbus-cleanup-sockets, dbus-daemon, dbus-launch, dbus-monitor, dbus-run-session, dbus-send, dbus-test-tool, dbus-update-activation-environment, and dbus-uuidgen
Installed libraries: libdbus-1.{a,so}
Installed directories: /etc/dbus-1, /usr/include/dbus-1.0, /usr/lib/dbus-1.0, /usr/share/dbus-1, /usr/share/doc/dbus-1.12.20, and /var/lib/dbus

### Short Descriptions

dbus-cleanup-sockets | is used to remove leftover sockets in a directory
dbus-daemon | Is the D-Bus message bus daemon
dbus-launch | Starts dbus-daemon from a shell script
dbus-monitor | Monitors messages passing through a D-Bus message bus
dbus-run-session | Starts a session bus instance of dbus-daemon from a shell script and starts a specified program in that session
dbus-send | Sends a message to a D-Bus message bus
dbus-test-tool | Is a tool to help packages test D-Bus
dbus-update-activation-environment | Updates environment variables that will be set for D-Bus session services
dbus-uuidgen | Generates a universally unique ID
`libdbus-1` | Contains API functions used to communicate with the D-Bus message bus

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