<div dir="ltr">Hi Richard, I actually did have the main braces. Sorry for not mentioning that. I did say I was using "exactly" the code from the FAQ, which was inaccurate. I was still experiencing the following error which caused a SegFault: ** (process:12751): CRITICAL **: dbus_g_proxy_call: assertion `DBUS_IS_G_PROXY (proxy)' failed Segmentation Fault After reading over some DBUS help docs, I found the following function fixed that problem: g_type_init (); I added that after the variable declarations and now the code works. I am assuming you may need to add that to your FAQ example. Good day, Dorian <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 11:23 PM, Richard Hughes <<a href="mailto:hughsient@gmail.com">hughsient@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 15:57 -0700, Dorian Perkins wrote: > Hello Again, > > After some help in #packagekit (thanks to james_w), I am currently > using the following compile command: > > gcc $(pkg-config --cflags dbus-glib-1) installer.c </div>Sure, I would use something similar: gcc -o installer -Wall installer.c `pkg-config --cflags --libs dbus-glib-1` <div class="Ih2E3d"> > I am currently getting the following compile time errors: </div>Right, the code I put up on the FAQ was meant to be copied and pasted into a program (a snippet), rather than compiled ready to run demo. If you want a demo, just surround it with some main braces like this: <div class="Ih2E3d"> #include <dbus/dbus-glib.h> </div>/**  * main:  **/ int main (int argc, char *argv[]) { <div class="Ih2E3d">        DBusGConnection *connection;        DBusGProxy *proxy;        GError *error = NULL;        gboolean ret;        connection = dbus_g_bus_get (DBUS_BUS_SESSION, NULL);        proxy = dbus_g_proxy_new_for_name (connection,                                           "org.freedesktop.PackageKit",                                           "/org/freedesktop/PackageKit",                                           "org.freedesktop.PackageKit");        /* execute sync method */        ret = dbus_g_proxy_call (proxy, "InstallPackageName", &error,                                 G_TYPE_STRING, "openoffice-clipart",                                 G_TYPE_INVALID, G_TYPE_INVALID);        if (!ret) {                g_warning ("failed: %s", error->message);                g_error_free (error);        } </div>        return 0; <div class="Ih2E3d">} > P.S. On a side note, the python example at > <a href="http://www.packagekit.org/pk-faq.html#session-methods" target="_blank">http://www.packagekit.org/pk-faq.html#session-methods</a> works just fine. > Not sure why I am having so much trouble getting the C example to > work. </div>I'll make the FAQ clearer, and add the compile line. Apologies for the confusion. Richard. _______________________________________________ PackageKit mailing list <a href="mailto:PackageKit@lists.freedesktop.org">PackageKit@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/packagekit" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/packagekit</a> </blockquote></div> </div>