1 *** Quick install instructions (tested on Debian/Ubuntu only!) *** 2 3 While "configure" and "make" may be run as normal user all other commands 4 need to be run as root. 5 6 Configure the build system: 7 $ ./configure --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var 8 9 Some configure options available: 10 11 --disable-gtk disable GTK+ tools (default: enabled) 12 --disable-dbus disable DBUS support (default: enabled) 13 --disable-python disable building python modules (default: enabled) 14 --with-dbus-sys=<dir> where D-BUS system.d directory is 15 --with-distro=<distro> the target Linux distribution (one of redhat, 16 suse, gentoo, debian or slackware) 17 --with-avahi-user=<user> User for running the Avahi daemon (avahi) 18 --with-avahi-group=<grp> Group for Avahi (avahi) 19 20 Please note that by disabling DBUS you lose the ability to publish and browse 21 services from local applications. 22 23 Please note that Avahi currently ships with a init scripts for only a few 24 distributions. if yours is not supported right now, YMMV. Patches welcome. 25 26 $ make 27 # make install 28 # ldconfig 29 30 Add a user an a group for avahi. (Debian specific) 31 # addgroup --system avahi 32 # adduser --system --no-create-home --ingroup avahi avahi 33 34 Ask DBUS to re-read its policies: 35 # kill -HUP `cat /var/run/dbus/pid` 36 37 Now start the Avahi daemon: 38 # /etc/init.d/avahi-daemon start 39 40 Optionally start the unicast DNS configuration daemon: 41 # /etc/init.d/avahi-dnsconfd start 42 43 To start the two daemons at boot time on Debian based distributions: 44 with DBUS support: 45 # ln -s /etc/init.d/avahi-daemon /etc/dbus-1/event.d/75avahi-daemon 46 # ln -s /etc/init.d/avahi-dnsconfd /etc/dbus-1/event.d/76avahi-dnsconfd 47 48 without DBUS support: 49 # update-rc.d avahi-daemon defaults 25 15 50 # update-rc.d avahi-dnsconfd defaults 26 14 51 52 If you plan to use avahi-autoipd you have to create the user/group 53 "avahi-autoipd" much the same way as "avahi". 54
