source: BOOK/final-system/common/dbus.xml@ b1320f1

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<sect1 id="ch-system-dbus" role="wrap">
  <?dbhtml filename="dbus.html"?>

  <title>D-Bus-&dbus-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="ch-system-dbus">
    <primary sortas="a-D-Bus">D-Bus</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title/>

    <para>D-Bus is a message bus system, a simple way for applications
    to talk to one another.</para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of D-Bus</title>

    <para os="a">Prepare D-Bus for compilation:</para>

<screen os="b"><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc \
    --libexecdir=/usr/lib/dbus-1.0 --localstatedir=/var \
    --with-systemdsystemunitdir=/lib/systemd/system</userinput></screen>

    <para os="c">Compile the package:</para>

<screen os="d"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>

    <para os="e">This package does not come with a test suite.</para>

    <para os="f">Install the package:</para>

<screen os="g"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
    href="libdbus.xml"
    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='h'])"/>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
    href="libdbus.xml"
    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='i'])"/>

    <para os="j">Create a symlink so that D-Bus and Systemd can use the same
    <filename>machine-id</filename> file:</para>

<screen os="k"><userinput>ln -sv /etc/machine-id /var/lib/dbus</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 id="contents-dbus" role="content">
    <title>Contents of D-Bus</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>dbus-cleanup-sockets, dbus-daemon, dbus-uuidgen, dbus-monitor, dbus-launch, dbus-send</seg>
        <seg>libdbus-1.[a,so]</seg>
        <seg>/etc/dbus-1, /usr/lib/dbus-1.0,
        /usr/share/dbus-1, /var/lib/dbus</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="dbus-cleanup-sockets">
        <term><command>dbus-cleanup-sockets</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Cleans up leftover sockets in a directory</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-dbus dbus-cleanup-sockets">
            <primary sortas="b-dbus-cleanup-sockets">dbus-cleanup-sockets</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="dbus-daemon">
        <term><command>dbus-daemon</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>The message bus daemon</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-dbus dbus-daemon">
            <primary sortas="b-dbus-daemon">dbus-daemon</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="dbus-uuidgen">
        <term><command>dbus-uuidgen</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Utility to generate UUIDs</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-dbus dbus-uuidgen">
            <primary sortas="b-dbus-uuidgen">dbus-uuidgen</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="dbus-monitor">
        <term><command>dbus-monitor</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>A debug probe that prints message bus messages</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-dbus dbus-monitor">
            <primary sortas="b-dbus-monitor">dbus-monitor</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="dbus-launch">
        <term><command>dbus-launch</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Utility to start a message bus from a shell script</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-dbus dbus-launch">
            <primary sortas="b-dbus-launch">dbus-launch</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="dbus-send">
        <term><command>dbus-send</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Send a message to a message bus</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-dbus dbus-send">
            <primary sortas="b-dbus-send">dbus-send</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libdbus-1">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libdbus-1</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Library containing the API for using the message bus</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-dbus libdbus-1">
            <primary sortas="c-libdbus-1">libdbus-1</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>