Installation of sdbusplus on custom distributions
The installation of sdbusplus bindings on custom distributions requires
few basic packages which are not clearly mentioned in the current
documentation.
This commit is used to improve the documentation of the sdbusplus to
include the necessary packages that are required to install it on
Ubuntu and Fedora. This will help beginners in the Ubuntu/Fedora
community to leverage the sdbusplus bindings for their applications
outside OpenBMC space.
Change-Id: I62ee774e8cf2cf9b03751496cfbb1d40858eaed9
Signed-off-by: Manojkiran Eda <manojkiran.eda@gmail.com>
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```
See the `example/Makefile.am` for more details.
+
+## Installing sdbusplus on custom distributions
+
+Installation of sdbusplus bindings on a custom distribution requires a few
+packages to be installed prior. Although these packages are the same for several
+distributions the names of these packages do differ. Below are the packages
+needed for Ubuntu and Fedora.
+
+### Installation on Ubuntu
+
+```
+sudo apt install git autoconf libtool pkg-config g++ autoconf-archive libsystemd-dev python python-yaml python-mako python-inflection
+```
+
+### Installation on Fedora
+
+```
+sudo dnf install git autoconf libtool gcc-c++ pkgconfig autoconf-archive systemd-devel python python-pip python-yaml python-mako
+```
+Install the inflection package using the pip utility (on Fedora)
+```
+pip install inflection
+```
+