%general-entities; ]> libsecret-&libsecret-version; libsecret Introduction to libsecret The libsecret package contains a GObject based library for accessing the Secret Service API. &lfs120_checked; Package Information Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &libsecret-md5sum; Download size: &libsecret-size; Estimated disk space required: &libsecret-buildsize; Estimated build time: &libsecret-time; libsecret Dependencies Required Recommended , , or (for cryptography), and Optional and , , (to build manual pages), and (can be used in tests) Optional (Required for the test suite) , , (Python 3 module), and tpm2-tss Runtime Dependency Any package requiring libsecret expects GNOME Keyring to be present at runtime. Installation of libsecret Install libsecret by running the following commands: mkdir bld && cd bld && meson setup --prefix=/usr \ --buildtype=release \ -Dgtk_doc=false \ .. && ninja If you have installed and wish to build the API documentation for this package, issue: sed "s/api_version_major/'&libsecret-version;'/" \ -i ../docs/reference/libsecret/meson.build && meson configure -Dgtk_doc=true && ninja Now, as the root user: ninja install To test the results, issue: dbus-run-session ninja test. Command Explanations -Dgtk_doc=false: &gi-doc-disable; : Use this switch if you have not installed and DocBook packages. : Use this switch if you want to use for cryptography or if either or is not installed. Contents Installed Program Installed Library Installed Directories secret-tool libsecret-1.so /usr/include/libsecret-1 and /usr/share/doc/libsecret-&libsecret-version; Short Descriptions secret-tool is a command line tool that can be used to store and retrieve passwords secret-tool libsecret-1.so contains the libsecret API functions libsecret-1.so