source: networking/netutils/wicd.xml@ 3c7bd00

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  <!ENTITY wicd-md5sum        "aaa2e9f5320849e0b5d053099a6f0007">
  <!ENTITY wicd-size          "536 KB">
  <!ENTITY wicd-buildsize     "4.2 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">
    http://projects.kde.org/projects/extragear/network/wicd-kde</ulink>.
    </para>

    &lfs79_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>

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

    <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>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">
    <xref linkend="pm-utils"/> (for suspend/resume integration),
    <ulink url="http://urwid.org/">Urwid</ulink>
    (for the Curses-based frontend), and
    <ulink url="http://babel.edgewall.org/">Babel</ulink>
    (for internationalization)
    </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 revision="sysv"><userinput>sed -e "/wpath.logrotate\|wpath.systemd/d" \
    -e "/detection failed/ a\                self.init=\'init\/default\/wicd\'" \
    -i.orig setup.py &amp;&amp;

rm po/*.po           &amp;&amp;

python setup.py configure --no-install-kde     \
                          --no-install-acpi    \
                          --no-install-pmutils \
                          --no-install-init    \
                          --no-install-gnome-shell-extensions \
                          --docdir=/usr/share/doc/wicd-&wicd-version;</userinput></screen>

<screen revision="systemd"><userinput>sed "/detection failed/ a\ self.init=\'init\/default\/wicd\'" \
    -i.orig setup.py &amp;&amp;

rm po/*.po           &amp;&amp;

python setup.py configure --no-install-kde     \
                          --no-install-acpi    \
                          --no-install-pmutils \
                          --no-install-init    \
                          --no-install-gnome-shell-extensions \
                          --docdir=/usr/share/doc/wicd-&wicd-version;</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 revision="sysv"><command>sed -e ... -i setup.py</command>: The first
    expression in this <command>sed</command> command prevents installation of
    logrotate and systemd configuration files. You may omit it if you use these
    utilities. The second one fixes building with BLFS.</para>

    <para revision="systemd"><command>sed -e ... -i setup.py</command>: Fix
    and issue while building with BLFS.</para>

    <para><command>rm po/*.po</command>: This command removes the international
    messages associated with this package.  The command is required unless Babel
    is installed.  If it is installed, po/ast.po still needs to be removed in
    order for the build to complete.</para>

    <para><option>--no-install-kde</option>: Prevent installation of an
    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
    <command>suspend</command> and <command>resume</command> 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 a bootscript is installed later in the instructions.</para>

    <para><option>--no-install-gnome-shell-extensions</option>: Prevent
    installation of the respective extensions. Remove this switch, if you are
    using Gnome Shell.</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" revision="sysv"/>
      <xref linkend="systemd-units" revision="systemd"/> 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, 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,usr/share,var/lib,var/log,var/run}/wicd,
        /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wicd and
        /usr/share/doc/wicd-&wicd-version;</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>