This is a short guide to installing libnotify and notification-daemon.
You will need dbus and its development packages, as well as subversion.
Start out by doing
svn co http://svn.galago.info/trunk/libnotify svn co http://svn.galago.info/trunk/notification-daemon cd libnotify su ./autogen.sh make make install cd ../notification-daemon ./autogen.sh make make install
To get dbus to find the proper file, I had to make a link from /usr/share/dbus-1/services/notification-daemon.service to /usr/local/share/dbus-1/services/notification-daemon.service . Now try starting notification-daemon:
/usr/local/libexec/notification-daemon &
and hopefully everything should work.