source: general/sysutils/upower.xml@ 3713bc71

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

  <!ENTITY upower-download-http "https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/upower/upower/uploads/177df5b9f9b76f25a2ad9da41aa0c1fa/upower-&upower-version;.tar.xz">
  <!ENTITY upower-download-ftp  " ">
  <!ENTITY upower-md5sum        "0c945817c12a7967d2c5edf7138fcf80">
  <!ENTITY upower-size          "438 KB">
  <!ENTITY upower-buildsize     "15 MB (with tests)">
  <!ENTITY upower-time          "0.1 SBU (using parallelism=4, add 0.8 SBU for tests)">
]>

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

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

  <title>UPower-&upower-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="upower">
    <primary sortas="a-UPower">UPower</primary>
  </indexterm>

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

    <para>
      The <application>UPower</application> package provides an interface to
      enumerating power devices, listening to device events and querying history
      and statistics. Any application or service on the system can access the
      org.freedesktop.UPower service via the system message bus.
    </para>

    &lfs110a_checked;

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

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

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required">
      <xref linkend="libgudev"/>,
      <xref linkend="libusb"/>, and
      <xref linkend="polkit"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional (Required if building GNOME)</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref linkend="gobject-introspection"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref linkend="gtk-doc"/>,
      <xref linkend="pygobject3"/>,
      <xref linkend="python-dbusmock"/>,
      <xref linkend="umockdev"/> (for part of the test suite), and
      <ulink url="https://libimobiledevice.org/">libimobiledevice</ulink>
    </para>

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

  <sect2 role="kernel" id="upower-kernel" revision="systemd">
    <!-- With UPower-0.9.11's hardening of the systemd unit file,
         User Namespace Support is now required. Without this, you get
         "ERROR 213/USER" out of a 'systemctl start upower'. -->
    <title>Kernel Configuration</title>

    <para>
      Enable the following options in the kernel configuration and recompile the
      kernel if necessary:
    </para>

 <screen><literal>General Setup ---&gt;
    [*] Namespaces support ---&gt;     [CONFIG_NAMESPACES]
       [*] User namespace           [CONFIG_USER_NS]</literal></screen>

    <indexterm zone="upower upower-kernel">
      <primary sortas="d-upower">upower</primary>
    </indexterm>
  </sect2>

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

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

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr         \
             --sysconfdir=/etc    \
             --localstatedir=/var \
             --enable-deprecated  \
             --disable-static     &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      To test the results, issue: <command>make check</command>. Some
      checks may not pass due to missing files. Test suite should be run from
      a local GUI session started with dbus-launch.
    </para>

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

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

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <para>
      <parameter>--enable-deprecated</parameter>: This switch enables
      deprecated functionality which is still needed by some
      applications.
    </para>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
      href="../../xincludes/static-libraries.xml"/>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
      href="../../xincludes/gtk-doc-rebuild.xml"/>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="configuration" revision="systemd">

    <title>Configuring UPower</title>
<!-- timer statistics have been removed from kernel (since 4.11)
     I do not know if there is a replacement. See
     https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9561519
     and https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100626

    <para>
      To use the command <command>upower -w</command> for information about
      processor wakeups (this command is used by <phrase revision="sysv">
      <ulink url="&gnome-download-http;/gnome-power-manager/">gnome-power-manager</ulink></phrase><phrase revision="systemd"><xref linkend="gnome-power-manager"/></phrase>)
      you need to enable CONFIG_TIMER_STATS.  This is achieved in
      <command>make menuconfig</command> by going to the &apos;kernel-hacking&apos;
      menu and selecting &apos;Collect kernel timers statistics&apos;.
    </para>
-->
    <sect3  id="upower-init" revision="systemd">
      <title>Systemd Unit</title>

      <para>
        To start the <command>UPower</command> service at boot,
        enable the previously installed systemd unit by
        running the following command as the
        <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
      </para>

      <indexterm zone="upower upower-init">
        <primary sortas="f-upower">upower</primary>
      </indexterm>

<screen role="root"><userinput>systemctl enable upower</userinput></screen>

    </sect3>

  </sect2>

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

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Program<!--
See below... <phrase revision="systemd">s</phrase>--></segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>
          upower
<!-- <phrase revision="systemd"> and upowerd</phrase>
Upowerd should not be listed, as it is in /usr/libexec, and is not supposed
to be run by a user. Furthermore, upowerd is also in sysv, and there is no
reason so single out systemd here. -->
        </seg>
        <seg>
          libupower-glib.so
        </seg>
        <seg>
          /etc/UPower,
          /usr/include/libupower-glib, and
          /var/lib/upower
        </seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

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

      <varlistentry id="upower-prog">
        <term><command>upower</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is the <application>UPower</application> command line tool
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="upower upower-prog">
            <primary sortas="b-upower">upower</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
<!-- See above
      <varlistentry id="upowerd" revision="systemd">
        <term><command>upowerd</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is the <application>UPower</application> Daemon. It provides the
            org.freedesktop.UPower service on the system message bus.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="upower upowerd">
            <primary sortas="b-upowerd">upowerd</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>-->

      <varlistentry id="libupower-glib">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libupower-glib.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            contains the <application>UPower</application> API functions
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="upower libupower-glib">
            <primary sortas="c-libupower-glib">libupower-glib.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>