#### Beyond Linux® From Scratch (systemd Edition) - Version 10.1

### Chapter 33. GNOME Libraries and Desktop

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# Folks-0.15.2

## Introduction to Folks

Folks is a library that aggregates people from multiple sources (e.g, Telepathy connection managers and Evolution Data Server, Facebook, etc.) to create metacontacts.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-10.1 platform.

### Package Information

- Download (HTTP): https://download.gnome.org/sources/folks/0.15/folks-0.15.2.tar.xz

- Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/sources/folks/0.15/folks-0.15.2.tar.xz

- Download MD5 sum: db7d824bcc7b2404c9570451028f1aa6

- Download size: 480 KB

- Estimated disk space required: 47 MB (add 22 MB for tests)

- Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU (Using parallelism=4, add 0.3 SBU for tests)

### Folks Dependencies

#### Required

evolution-data-server-3.38.4, gobject-introspection-1.66.1, libgee-0.20.3, dbusmock-0.22.0, and telepathy-glib-0.24.2

#### Recommended

BlueZ-5.55 and Vala-0.50.3

#### Optional

libsocialweb and Zeitgeist

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/folks

## Installation of Folks

Install Folks by running the following commands:

    mkdir build &&
    cd    build &&

    meson --prefix=/usr .. &&
    ninja

To test the results, issue ninja test from a local X session started with dbus-launch.

Now, as the `root` user:

    ninja install

## Command Explanations

`-Ddocs=true`: This switch enables documentation generation.

## Contents

Installed Programs: folks-import and folks-inspect
Installed Libraries: libfolks-dummy.so, libfolks-eds.so, libfolks.so, and libfolks-telepathy.so
Installed Directories: /usr/include/folks and /usr/lib/folks

### Short Descriptions

folks-import | is used to import meta-contact information to libfolks
folks-inspect | is used to inspect meta-contact information in libfolks
`libfolks-eds.so` | contains Evolution specific implementations of the libfolks classes
`libfolks.so` | contains the Folks API functions
`libfolks-telepathy.so` | contains Telepathy specific implementations of the libfolks classes

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