%general-entities; ]> Libdbus-&dbus-version; Libdbus <para>Libdbus package provides a library to communicate with D-Bus messagebus daemon. It is only installed to satisfy circular dependency between Systemd and D-Bus.</para> </sect2> <sect2 role="installation"> <title>Installation of Libdbus Prepare Libdbus for compilation: ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc \ --libexecdir=/usr/lib/dbus-1.0 --localstatedir=/var \ --with-systemdsystemunitdir=/lib/systemd/system Compile the package: make -C dbus libdbus-1.la This package does come with a test suite, but will not run as only the libraries were built. Install the package: make -C dbus lib_LTLIBRARIES=libdbus-1.la \ install-libLTLIBRARIES install-dbusincludeHEADERS \ install-nodist_dbusarchincludeHEADERS make install-pkgconfigDATA Move the shared library to /lib and recreate the symbolic link. mv -v /usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.* /lib ln -sfv ../../lib/$(readlink /usr/lib/libdbus-1.so) /usr/lib/libdbus-1.so Contents of Libdbus Installed programs Installed libraries Installed directories none libdbus-1.[a,so] /usr/include/dbus-1.0, /usr/lib/dbus-1.0 Short Descriptions libdbus-1.[a,so] Library containing the API for using the message bus libdbus