Wicd-1.7.2.4
Introduction to Wicd
Wicd 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
here.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.4
platform.
Package Information
Wicd Dependencies
Note
Wicd uses ifconfig
to activate network connections. ifconfig is provided by both
the Inetutils and Net-tools packages. The Inetutils package is
part of LFS, but the ifconfig command is not
installed by the LFS instructions. If you choose to install the
Inetutils version of ifconfig
, you
need to reinstall the package and configure it without the
--disable-ifconfig
switch.
Required
Python-2.7.5, D-Bus Python-1.2.0, Wireless
Tools-29, and Net-tools-CVS_20101030 (Wicd needs
ifconfig and
mii-tool from this
package)
Recommended
PyGTK-2.24.0 (for the GTK frontend), wpa_supplicant-2.0 (for WPA support), and
dhcpcd-6.0.5 or DHCP-4.2.5-P1 (for DHCP support)
Optional
pm-utils-1.4.1 (for suspend/resume
integration), Urwid (for the Curses-based
frontend), and Babel (for internationalization)
User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/wicd
Installation of Wicd
Install Wicd by running the
following commands:
sed -i '/wpath.logrotate\|wpath.systemd/d' setup.py &&
rm po/*.po &&
python setup.py configure --no-install-kde \
--no-install-acpi \
--no-install-pmutils \
--no-install-init
This package does not come with a test suite.
Now, as the root
user, install the
package:
python setup.py install
Command Explanations
rm po/*.po: 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.
sed -i '/wpath...:
This sed prevents
installation of logrotate and systemd
configuration files. You may omit it if you use these utilities.
--no-install-kde
: Prevent installation
of an autostart desktop file for KDE. If you use KDE, you should
instead install the Wicd
KDE Client.
--no-install-acpi
: Prevent installation
of suspend and
resume scripts for
acpid. Omit this option if you use acpid.
--no-install-pmutils
: Prevent
installation of hooks for pm-utils. Omit this option if you use
pm-utils.
--no-install-init
: Prevent installation
of any init scripts, as a bootscript is installed later in the
instructions.
--wicdgroup=<group>
: The group
that will have permission to use the Wicd client (default is the
users
group).
Configuring Wicd
Config Files
/etc/wicd/manager-settings.conf
,
/etc/wicd/wired-settings.conf
and
/etc/wicd/wireless-settings.conf
Configuration Information
To automatically start Wicd at boot time, you need to first
install the Wicd bootscript, /etc/rc.d/init.d/wicd
, included in the
blfs-bootscripts-20130908 package (as
user root
):
make install-wicd
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 S*network
and K*network
symlinks in the /etc/rc*.d
directories or by setting
ONBOOT=no
in any /etc/sysconfig/ifconfig.*
files.
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 /etc/wicd
. 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.
Be sure to add all users who are to have rights to open and close
network connections with Wicd to the users
group (or the group specified with the
--wicdgroup
configuration option).
Contents
Installed Programs:
wicd, wicd-cli, wicd-client, wicd-curses,
and wicd-gtk
Installed Libraries:
none
Installed Directories:
/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
Short Descriptions
wicd
|
is the wicd daemon.
|
wicd-cli
|
is a command line interface for configuring the wicd
daemon.
|
wicd-client
|
is the wicd client. This script attempts to automatically
choose the relevant configuration interface.
|
wicd-curses
|
is a curses interface for configuring the wicd daemon.
|
wicd-gtk
|
is a GTK interface for configuring the wicd daemon
|
Last updated on 2013-09-06 10:46:32 -0700