The libsecret package contains a GObject based library for accessing the Secret Service API.
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Download (HTTP): https://download.gnome.org/sources/libsecret/0.20/libsecret-0.20.5.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/sources/libsecret/0.20/libsecret-0.20.5.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 5c9e5a011852c82fa9ed9e61ba91efb5
Download size: 184 KB
Estimated disk space required: 11 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU (with tests)
gobject-introspection-1.74.0, libgcrypt-1.10.1, and Vala-0.56.3
Gi-DocGen-2023.1 and docbook-xml-4.5, docbook-xsl-nons-1.79.2, libxslt-1.1.37 (to build manual pages), and Valgrind-3.20.0 (can be used in tests)
D-Bus Python-1.3.2, Gjs-1.74.1, PyGObject-3.42.2 (Python 3 module), and tpm2-tss
Any package requiring libsecret expects GNOME Keyring to be present at runtime.
User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libsecret
Install libsecret by running the following commands:
mkdir bld && cd bld && meson --prefix=/usr --buildtype=release -Dgtk_doc=false .. && ninja
Now, as the root user:
ninja install
To test the results, issue: dbus-run-session ninja test.
If gi-docgen is installed and the -Dgtk_doc=false has been removed, as the
root user, issue the following
command to fix the name of the installed documentation directory:
mv -v /usr/share/doc/libsecret-{1,0.20.5}
--buildtype=release:
Specify a buildtype suitable for stable releases of the package, as
the default may produce unoptimized binaries.
-Dgtk_doc=false: Remove
this if you have Gi-DocGen-2023.1 installed and want to
rebuild the documentation with it.
-Dmanpage=false: Use this switch if you
have not installed libxslt-1.1.37 and DocBook packages.
-Dgcrypt=false: Use this switch if you
have not installed the recommended dependency of libgcrypt-1.10.1.