The NetworkManager Applet provides a tool and a panel applet used to configure wired and wireless network connections through GUI. It's designed for use with any desktop environment that uses GTK+, such as Xfce and LXDE.
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Development versions of BLFS may not build or run some packages properly if dependencies have been updated since the most recent stable versions of the book.
Download (HTTP): https://download.gnome.org/sources/network-manager-applet/1.30/network-manager-applet-1.30.0.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/sources/network-manager-applet/1.30/network-manager-applet-1.30.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 1ad82752f1590dd356afda8a451910f2
Download size: 1.8 MB
Estimated disk space required: 39 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU (with tests)
GTK+-3.24.36, libnma-1.10.6, and libsecret-0.20.5
gobject-introspection-1.74.0 and ModemManager-1.18.12
Since this package uses Polkit-122 for authorization, one Polkit Authentication Agent should be running when the functionality of this package is used.
gnome-bluetooth-42.5 and libindicator
User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/network-manager-applet
Install NetworkManager Applet by running the following commands:
mkdir build &&
cd build &&
meson --prefix=/usr \
--buildtype=release \
-Dappindicator=no \
-Dselinux=false &&
ninja
To test the results, issue: ninja test.
Now, as the root user:
ninja install
-Dappindicator=no: This
switch disables AppIndicator support in network-manager-applet
because it requires libindicator, which is not in BLFS. The build
will fail without this option.
-Dselinux=false: This
switch forcibly disables SELinux
support since it is not currently in BLFS and the build will fail
without it.
-Dwwan=false: This switch disables WWAN
support. Use this if you do not have ModemManager-1.18.12 installed.