Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 7.6

Chapter 12. System Utilities

UDisks-2.1.3

Introduction to UDisks

The UDisks package provides a daemon, tools and libraries to access and manipulate disks and storage devices.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.6 platform.

Package Information

  • Download (HTTP): http://udisks.freedesktop.org/releases/udisks-2.1.3.tar.bz2

  • Download MD5 sum: f2c793f839058371d1e93a654199438d

  • Download size: 892 KB

  • Estimated disk space required: 40 MB (additional 1 MB for the tests and 46 MB for docs creation)

  • Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU (additional 0.1 SBU for docs creation)

UDisks Dependencies

Required

libatasmart-0.19, libxslt-1.1.28, Polkit-0.112, and udev-extras (from eudev) (for GUdev)

Optional (Required if building GNOME)

gobject-introspection-1.40.0

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.20

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/udisks2

Installation of UDisks

Install UDisks by running the following commands: 

./configure --prefix=/usr        \
            --sysconfdir=/etc    \
            --localstatedir=/var \
            --disable-static &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Contents

Installed Programs: udisksctl, udisksd and umount.udisks2
Installed Library: libudisks2.so
Installed Directories: /etc/udisks2, /usr/include/udisks2, /usr/lib/udisks2, /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/udisks2 and /var/lib/udisks2

Short Descriptions

udisksctl

is a command-line program used to interact with the udisksd daemon.

udisksd

is the UDisks daemon itself.

libudisks2.so

contains the UDisks API functions.

Last updated on 2014-09-17 04:20:33 -0700