The libassuan package contains an inter process communication library used by some of the other GnuPG related packages. libassuan's primary use is to allow a client to interact with a non-persistent server. libassuan is not, however, limited to use with GnuPG servers and clients. It was designed to be flexible enough to meet the demands of many transaction based environments with non-persistent servers.
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Download (HTTP): https://www.gnupg.org/ftp/gcrypt/libassuan/libassuan-3.0.1.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 6f0d239302ae3b8d4aefcb499b137530
Download size: 580 KB
Estimated disk space required: 6.5 MB (with tests, add 3.4 MB for pdf documentation)
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU (with tests and html documentation)
Install libassuan by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr && make && make -C doc html && makeinfo --html --no-split -o doc/assuan_nochunks.html doc/assuan.texi && makeinfo --plaintext -o doc/assuan.txt doc/assuan.texi
The above commands build the documentation in html and plaintext formats. If you wish to build alternate formats of the documentation, you must have texlive-20240312 installed and issue the following commands:
make -C doc pdf ps
To test the results, issue: make check.
Now, as the root user:
make install &&
install -v -dm755 /usr/share/doc/libassuan-3.0.1/html &&
install -v -m644 doc/assuan.html/* \
/usr/share/doc/libassuan-3.0.1/html &&
install -v -m644 doc/assuan_nochunks.html \
/usr/share/doc/libassuan-3.0.1 &&
install -v -m644 doc/assuan.{txt,texi} \
/usr/share/doc/libassuan-3.0.1
If you built alternate formats of the documentation, install them
by running the following commands as the root user:
install -v -m644 doc/assuan.{pdf,ps,dvi} \
/usr/share/doc/libassuan-3.0.1