Avahi
Download Source: | http://avahi.org/download/avahi-0.6.25.tar.gz |
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Introduction to Avahi
According to Avahi's site: Avahi is a system which facilitates service discovery on a local network. This means that you can plug your laptop or computer into a network and instantly be able to view other people who you can chat with, find printers to print to or find files being shared. This kind of technology is already found in Apple MacOS X (branded Rendezvous, Bonjour and sometimes Zeroconf) and is very convenient. Avahi is mainly based on Lennart Poettering's flexmdns mDNS implementation for Linux which has been discontinued in favour of Avahi.
Project Homepage: http://www.avahi.org/
Dependencies
See http://www.avahi.org/wiki/DownloadAvahi#Requirements for more information.
Required
Recommended
Optional
- Doxygen
- GDBM or Berkeley DB
- Gtk2
- libcap
- Libglade
- Mono and Monodoc
- Gtk-Sharp (Required if building Mono bindings)
- Pkg-config
- PyGTK and D-BUS Python
- Pyrex and Python (Built with GDBM)
- PyTwisted
- Qt3
- Qt4
Avahi Users/Groups
The avahi user is running the Avahi daemon:
groupadd -g 20 avahi && useradd -c "Avahi Daemon User" -d /dev/null \ -u 20 -g avahi -s /bin/false avahi
The avahi-autoipd user/group is for running the avahi-autoipd daemon:
groupadd -g 21 avahi-autoipd && useradd -c "Avahi AutoIP Daemon User" -d /dev/null \ -u 21 -g avahi-autoipd -s /bin/false avahi-autoipd
The netdev group is a priviliged access group for Avahi clients:
groupadd -g 22 netdev
Configure Options
If you do not have any of following packages installed pass the appropriate options to configure:
--disable-glib --disable-qt3 --disable-qt4 --disable-gtk --disable-dbus --disable-expat --disable-mono --disable-monodoc
If you want to enable the HOWL compat layer:
--enable-compat-howl
If you want to enable to libdns_sd compat layer:
--enable-compat-libdns_sd
Non-Multilib
Compile the package:
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc \ --localstatedir=/var --with-distro=none && make
Install the package
make install
Multilib
32Bit
Compile the package:
CC="gcc ${BUILD32}" CXX="g++ ${BUILD32}" \ PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${PKG_CONFIG_PATH32}" USE_ARCH=32 \ ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc \ --localstatedir=/var --with-distro=none && make
Install the package
make install
N32
Compile the package:
CC="gcc ${BUILDN32}" CXX="g++ ${BUILDN32}" \ PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${PKG_CONFIG_PATHN32}" USE_ARCH=n32 \ ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc \ --localstatedir=/var --libdir=/usr/lib32 \ --with-distro=none && make
Install the package
make install
64Bit
Compile the package:
CC="gcc ${BUILD64}" CXX="g++ ${BUILD64}" \ PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${PKG_CONFIG_PATH64}" USE_ARCH=64 \ ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc \ --localstatedir=/var --libdir=/usr/lib64 \ --with-distro=none && make
Install the package
make install
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Installed Directories: | /usr/include/avahi-ui, /etc/avahi, /usr/include/avahi-compat-howl, /usr/include/avahi-compat-libdns_sd, /usr/share/avahi, /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/avahi, /usr/include/avahi-client, /usr/include/avahi-qt3, /usr/include/avahi-core, /usr/include/avahi-glib, usr/include/avahi-common |
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Installed Programs: | bssh, avahi-autoipd, avahi-bookmarks, avahi-discover, avahi-browse, avahi-resolve, avahi-publish, avahi-set-host-name, avahi-dnsconfd, avahi-daemon, avahi-discover-standalone |
Installed Libraries: | libavahi-ui.{a,la,so}, libhowl.{a,la,so}, libdns_sd.{a,la,so}, libavahi-client.{a,la,so}, libavahi-qt3.{a,la,so}, libavahi-core.{a,la,so}, libavahi-glib.{a,la,so}, libavahi-common.{a,la,so} |
Configuring
Bootscript
There currently isn't a pre-written bootscript for avahi-autoipd and avahi-dnsconfd.
- avahi-daemon - The Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD daemon.
- avahi-autoipd - IPv4LL network address configuration daemon. For use in an ad-hoc network where there is a lack of a DHCP server.
- avahi-dnsconfd - Unicast DNS server from mDNS/DNS-SD configuration daemon. Connects to a running avahi-daemon and runs the script /etc/avahi/dnsconfd.action for each unicast DNS server that is announced on the local LAN.