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  <!ENTITY gnet-md5sum        "3a7a40411775688fe4c42141ab007048">
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  <?dbhtml filename="gnet.html"?>

  <sect1info>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>GNet-&gnet-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="gnet">
    <primary sortas="a-GNet">GNet</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to GNet</title>

    <para>The <application>GNet</application> package contains a simple network
    library. This is useful for supporting TCP sockets, UDP and IP multicast,
    asynchronous DNS lookup, and more.</para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&gnet-download-http;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&gnet-download-ftp;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download MD5 sum: &gnet-md5sum;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download size: &gnet-size;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated disk space required: &gnet-buildsize;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated build time: &gnet-time;</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">GNet Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required"><!--<xref linkend="GLib"/> or--><xref linkend="glib2"/></para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
    <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/gnet"/></para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of GNet</title>

    <para>Install <application>GNet</application> by running the following
    commands:</para>

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

    <para>This package does not come with a test suite.</para>

    <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>

<screen role='root'><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Library</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>None</seg>
        <seg>libgnet-2.0.{so,a}</seg>
        <seg>/usr/include/gnet-2.0, /usr/lib/gnet-2.0 and
        /usr/share/doc/libgnet2.0-dev or /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gnet</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

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

      <varlistentry id="libgnet">
        <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libgnet-2.0.{so,a}</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is a simple network library written in C. It is
          object-oriented and built upon <application>GLib</application>. It is
          intended to be easy to use and port.</para>
          <indexterm zone="gnet libgnet">
            <primary sortas="c-libgnet-2.0">libgnet-2.0.{so,a}</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

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