The libsecret package contains a GObject based library for accessing the Secret Service API.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 12.1 platform.
Download (HTTP): https://download.gnome.org/sources/libsecret/0.21/libsecret-0.21.3.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 47e4d26ef43c938156011ad8cab5f414
Download size: 204 KB
Estimated disk space required: 10 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU (with tests)
gobject-introspection-1.78.1, libgcrypt-1.10.3, or GnuTLS-3.8.3 (for cryptography), and Vala-0.56.14
Gi-DocGen-2023.3 and docbook-xml-4.5, docbook-xsl-nons-1.79.2, libxslt-1.1.39 (to build manual pages), and Valgrind-3.22.0 (can be used in tests)
D-Bus Python-1.3.2, Gjs-1.78.4, PyGObject-3.46.0 (Python 3 module), and tpm2-tss
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Any package requiring libsecret expects GNOME Keyring to be present at runtime.
Install libsecret by running the following commands:
mkdir bld &&
cd bld &&
meson setup --prefix=/usr \
--buildtype=release \
-Dgtk_doc=false \
.. &&
ninja
If you have Gi-DocGen-2023.3 installed and wish to build the API documentation for this package, issue:
sed "s/api_version_major/'0.21.3'/" \
-i ../docs/reference/libsecret/meson.build &&
meson configure -Dgtk_doc=true &&
ninja
Now, as the root user:
ninja install
To test the results, issue: dbus-run-session ninja test.
--buildtype=release:
Specify a buildtype suitable for stable releases of the package, as
the default may produce unoptimized binaries.
-Dgtk_doc=false: Allow
building this package without Gi-DocGen-2023.3 installed. If you have
Gi-DocGen-2023.3 installed and you
wish to rebuild and install the API documentation, a meson configure command will
reset this option.
-Dmanpage=false: Use this switch if you
have not installed libxslt-1.1.39 and DocBook packages.
-Dcrypto=gnutls, disabled: Use this
switch if you want to use GnuTLS-3.8.3 for
cryptography or if either GnuTLS-3.8.3 or
libgcrypt-1.10.3 is not installed.