Avahi is a local network service discovery
Avahi is a system which facilitates service discovery on a local network via the mDNS/DNS-SD protocol suite. This enables you to plug your laptop or computer into a network and instantly be able to view other people who you can chat with, find printers to print to or find files being shared.
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The avahi-libs package contains the libraries needed to run programs that use avahi.
Libraries and header files for avahi development
Header files for using the avahi libraries.