source: general/genlib/libassuan.xml@ 1004f84

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   "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY libassuan-download-http " ">
  <!ENTITY libassuan-download-ftp
           "ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libassuan/libassuan-&libassuan-version;.tar.bz2">
  <!ENTITY libassuan-md5sum        "757243cc4a71b30ed8d8dbe784035d36">
  <!ENTITY libassuan-size          "532 KB">
  <!ENTITY libassuan-buildsize     "7.3 MB">
  <!ENTITY libassuan-time          "less than 0.1 SBU">
]>

<sect1 id="libassuan" xreflabel="Libassuan-&libassuan-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="libassuan.html"?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>libassuan-&libassuan-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="libassuan">
    <primary sortas="a-libassuan">libassuan</primary>
  </indexterm>

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

    <para>
      The <application>libassuan</application> package contains an inter
      process communication library used by some of the other
      <application>GnuPG</application> related packages.
      <application>libassuan</application>'s primary use is to allow a
      client to interact with a non-persistent server.
      <application>libassuan</application> is not, however, limited to
      use with <application>GnuPG</application> servers and clients. It
      was designed to be flexible enough to meet the demands of many
      transaction based environments with non-persistent servers.
    </para>

    &lfs75_checked;

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

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

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required">
      <xref linkend="libgpg-error"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref linkend="texlive"/>
    </para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
      <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/libassuan"/>
    </para>
  </sect2>

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

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

<!-- .texi documentation does not build with Texinfo 5.1 -->
<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      If you wish to build documentation, you must have
      <xref linkend="texlive"/> installed. Due to an apparently fake error,
      build the documentation in two steps, issuing the following commands:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>make -C doc pdf || true &amp;&amp;
make -C doc ps</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      To test the results, issue: <command>make check</command>.
    </para>

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

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

    <para>
      If you built the documentation, install it by running the
      following commands as the
      <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>install -v -dm755 /usr/share/doc/libassuan-&libassuan-version; &amp;&amp;
install -v -m644  doc/assuan.{pdf,ps,dvi} \
                  /usr/share/doc/libassuan-&libassuan-version;</userinput></screen>
  </sect2>

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

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Program</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Library</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directory</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>
          libassuan-config
        </seg>
        <seg>
          libassuan.so
        </seg>
        <seg>
          /usr/share/doc/libassuan-&libassuan-version;
        </seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

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

      <varlistentry id="libassuan-lib">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libassuan.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is an inter process communication library which
            implements the Assuan protocol.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="libassuan libassuan-lib">
            <primary sortas="c-libassuan">libassuan.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>