Liboobs

Liboobs is an efficient wrapping library designed to interface with the System Tools Backends. This library essentially provides users with a set of easily accessible GObjects to access key system configuration details such as network interfaces, groups, and users. It takes care of handling sessions with the backend and data consistency, thereby saving users significant programming effort.

To compile and use Liboobs, you would require system-tools-backends 2.0 and DBus of version 0.31 and above. With this library, installation is as simple as following a few steps. Firstly, navigate to the directory containing the package's source code and type './configure' to configure the package accordingly for your system.

Afterwards, run the 'make' command to compile the package. For self-tests that come bundled with the package, you can enter 'make check'. To install programs and data files and necessary documentation, enter 'make install'.

In case you wish to remove the program binaries and object files from the source code directory, enter 'make clean'. In the event that you need to compile for a different computer, type 'make distclean' to remove files that were created by 'configure'. Additionally, there's a 'make maintainer-clean' target, primarily meant for the package's developers.

All in all, Liboobs is a great software that makes interfacing with System Tool Backends very effortless.