%general-entities; ]> $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ libassuan-&libassuan-version; libassuan Introduction to libassuan The libassuan package contains an inter process communication library used by some of the other GnuPG related packages. libassuan's primary use is to allow a client to interact with a non-persistent server. libassuan is not, however, limited to use with GnuPG servers and clients. It was designed to be flexible enough to meet the demands of many transaction based environments with non-persistent servers. &lfs101_checked; Package Information Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &libassuan-md5sum; Download size: &libassuan-size; Estimated disk space required: &libassuan-buildsize; Estimated build time: &libassuan-time; libassuan Dependencies Required Optional (or ) User Notes: Installation of libassuan Install libassuan by running the following commands: ./configure --prefix=/usr && make && make -C doc html && makeinfo --html --no-split -o doc/assuan_nochunks.html doc/assuan.texi && makeinfo --plaintext -o doc/assuan.txt doc/assuan.texi The above commands build the documentation in html and plaintext formats. If you wish to build alternate formats of the documentation, you must have installed and issue the following commands: make -C doc pdf ps To test the results, issue: make check. Now, as the root user: make install && install -v -dm755 /usr/share/doc/libassuan-&libassuan-version;/html && install -v -m644 doc/assuan.html/* \ /usr/share/doc/libassuan-&libassuan-version;/html && install -v -m644 doc/assuan_nochunks.html \ /usr/share/doc/libassuan-&libassuan-version; && install -v -m644 doc/assuan.{txt,texi} \ /usr/share/doc/libassuan-&libassuan-version; If you built alternate formats of the documentation, install them by running the following commands as the root user: install -v -m644 doc/assuan.{pdf,ps,dvi} \ /usr/share/doc/libassuan-&libassuan-version; Contents Installed Program Installed Library Installed Directory libassuan-config libassuan.so /usr/share/doc/libassuan-&libassuan-version; Short Descriptions libassuan-config is a libassuan build information script libassuan-config libassuan.so is an inter process communication library which implements the Assuan protocol libassuan.so