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This file describes how to compile and run gaim with dbus support.

Hopefully, most of the steps from point 3 will soon be automated.

1. Make sure you have the latest version (0.34) of the dbus library

installed, including glib bindings.

http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/dbus

2. Compile gaim

./configure --enable-dbus

make

make install

3. Configure your dbus instalation for gaim

A. Find your dbus session configuration file, usually

/etc/dbus-1/session.conf

B. In that file, find the <servicedir> section. This section

contains the directory that stores files describing services,

usually

/usr/share/dbus-1/services

C. Copy src/dbus-gaim.service to that directory

D. Edit the dbus-gaim.service file you've just copied, and replace

the path in the "Exec=" line with the path to your gaim

executable.

4. Start Session DBUS if you haven't done it already

eval `dbus-launch --session`

export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID

These commands will set the two above shell variables. These

variables must be set before running any dbus-aware programs.

Start gaim as usual. To communicate with it, use "gaim-send". When

you execute gaim-send, the dbus system will automatically start a gaim

process if one is not running already.