source: networking/netutils/wicd.xml@ 0f9076d

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  <!ENTITY wicd-md5sum        "9c5664a0e850cddbe80942eabb10430a">
  <!ENTITY wicd-size          "434 KB">
  <!ENTITY wicd-buildsize     "4.1 MB">
  <!ENTITY wicd-time          "less than 0.1 SBU">
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<sect1 id="wicd" xreflabel="Wicd-&wicd-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="wicd.html"?>

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

  <title>Wicd-&wicd-version;</title>

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

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

    <para><application>Wicd</application> is a network manager written in Python.
    It simplifies network setup by automatically detecting and connecting to 
    wireless and wired networks. Wicd includes support for WPA authentication and
    DHCP configuration. It provides Curses- and GTK-based graphical frontends for 
    user-friendly control. An excellent KDE-based frontend is also available  
    <ulink url="http://projects.kde.org/projects/extragear/network/wicd-kde">here</ulink>.</para>

    &lfs71_checked;

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

    <note><para>Wicd uses <command>ifconfig</command> to activate network 
    connections. <command>ifconfig</command> is provided by both the Inetutils 
    and Net-tools packages. The Inetutils package is part of LFS, but the 
    <command>ifconfig</command> command is not installed by the LFS instructions. 
    If you choose to install the Inetutils version of <option>ifconfig</option>, 
    you need to reinstall the package and configure it without the 
    <option>--disable-ifconfig</option> switch.
    </para></note>
    
    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required">
    <xref linkend="python2"/>,
    <xref linkend="dbus-python"/>,
    <xref linkend="wireless_tools"/> and
    <xref linkend="net-tools"/> (Wicd needs <command>ifconfig</command> and 
    <command>mii-tool</command> from this package)
    </para>
    
    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
    <para role="recommended">
    <xref linkend="pygtk"/> (for the GTK frontend),
    <xref linkend="wpa_supplicant"/> (for WPA support) and
    <xref linkend="dhcpcd"/> or <xref linkend="dhcp"/> (for DHCP support)
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
    <ulink url="http://excess.org/urwid/">Urwid</ulink> (for the Curses-based frontend) and
    <ulink url="http://pm-utils.freedesktop.org/wiki/">pm-utils</ulink> (for suspend/resume integration)
    
    </para>

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

  </sect2>

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

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

<screen><userinput>sed -i '/wpath.logrotate\|wpath.systemd/d' setup.py &amp;&amp;
python setup.py configure --no-install-kde \
                          --no-install-acpi \
                          --no-install-pmutils \
                          --no-install-init</userinput></screen>

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

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

<screen role="root"><userinput>python setup.py install</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>


  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>
    <para><command>sed -i '/wpath...</command>: The sed prevents installation of logrotate
    and systemd configuration files. You may omit it if you use these utilities.</para>
    <para><option>--no-install-kde</option>: Prevent installation of  
    autostart desktop file for KDE. If you use KDE, you should instead install the 
    <ulink url="http://projects.kde.org/projects/extragear/network/wicd-kde">Wicd KDE Client</ulink>.
    </para>
    <para><option>--no-install-acpi</option>: Prevent installation of  
    suspend and resume scripts for acpid. Omit this option if you use acpid.</para>
    <para><option>--no-install-pmutils</option>: Prevent installation of hooks for 
    pm-utils. Omit this option if you use pm-utils.</para>
    <para><option>--no-install-init</option>: Prevent installation of any init scripts, 
    as we install our own bootscript.</para>
    <para><option>--wicdgroup=<replaceable>&lt;group&gt;</replaceable></option>: 
    The group that will have permission to use the Wicd client (default is the 
    <systemitem class="groupname">users</systemitem> group).</para>
  </sect2>

    <sect2 role="configuration">
    <title>Configuring Wicd</title>

    <sect3 id="wicd-config">
      <title>Config Files</title>

      <para><filename>/etc/wicd/manager-settings.conf</filename>,
      <filename>/etc/wicd/wired-settings.conf</filename> and 
      <filename>/etc/wicd/wireless-settings.conf</filename></para>

    </sect3>

    <sect3 id="wicd-init">
      <title>Configuration Information</title>

      <para>To automatically start Wicd at boot time, you need to first install
      the Wicd bootscript,
      <filename>/etc/rc.d/init.d/wicd</filename>,
      included in the <xref linkend="bootscripts"/> package
      (as user <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>):</para>

      <indexterm zone="wicd wicd-init">
        <primary sortas="f-wicd">wicd (bootscript)</primary>
      </indexterm>

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

      <para>Since Wicd will now handle all configuration of network devices, 
      the network bootscript installed by LFS should be disabled. This can be 
      achieved by either removing any <filename>S*network</filename> and 
      <filename>K*network</filename> symlinks in the <filename>/etc/rc*.d</filename> 
      directories or by setting <literal>ONBOOT=no</literal> in any 
      <filename>/etc/sysconfig/ifconfig.*</filename> files.</para>

      <para>No manual configuration of Wicd is needed if you use the graphical
      frontends. If you are only going to use Wicd from command-line, you can configure
      it using the configuration files in <filename>/etc/wicd</filename>. For a list of 
      available options, take a look at the man-pages for: wicd-manager-settings.conf, 
      wicd-wired-settings.conf and wicd-wireless-settings.conf.</para>
      
      <para>Be sure to add all users who are to have rights to open and close network 
      connections with Wicd to the <systemitem class="groupname">users</systemitem> 
      group (or the group specified with the <option>--wicdgroup</option> configuration 
      option).</para>
      
    </sect3>

  </sect2>

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

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

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>wicd, wicd-cli, wicd-client, wicd-curses and wicd-gtk</seg>
        <seg>none</seg>
        <seg>/etc/wicd, /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wicd, /usr/share/doc/wicd, 
        /usr/share/pixmaps/wicd, /usr/share/wicd, /var/lib/wicd and /var/log/wicd</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

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

      <varlistentry id="wicdd">
        <term><command>wicd</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is the wicd daemon.</para>
          <indexterm zone="wicd wicdd">
            <primary sortas="b-wicdd">wicd</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="wicd-cli">
        <term><command>wicd-cli</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is a command line interface for configuring the wicd daemon.</para>
          <indexterm zone="wicd wicd-cli">
            <primary sortas="b-wicd-cli">wicd-cli</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="wicd-client">
        <term><command>wicd-client</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is the wicd client. This script attempts to automatically choose 
          the relevant configuration interface.</para>
          <indexterm zone="wicd wicd-client">
            <primary sortas="b-wicd-client">wicd-client</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="wicd-curses">
        <term><command>wicd-curses</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is a curses interface for configuring the wicd daemon.</para>
          <indexterm zone="wicd wicd-curses">
            <primary sortas="b-wicd-curses">wicd-curses</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="wicd-gtk">
        <term><command>wicd-gtk</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is a GTK interface for configuring the wicd daemon</para>
          <indexterm zone="wicd wicd-gtk">
            <primary sortas="b-wicd-gtk">wicd-gtk</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>