[SOLVED] Installing awesome without enabling community-testing?

tokoro · 2012-05-06 23:33:45

I want to install awesome without having to enable the community-testing repo. Is there a way to install it without getting unstable package upgrades?
How stable would it be to install the awesome-git package?

Last edited by tokoro (2012-05-13 00:22:21)

boswbr25 · 2012-05-07 02:00:32

The only way I can think of would be to get ABS and activate Community-Testing in /etc/abs.conf. Then, when you build the abs tree you will have the required PKGBUILDS which are only available in community-testing (awesome & cairo w/ xcb). Either that or build awesome from source.

Edit: By the way, I am far from an expert so I'm not sure if this is really a "recommended" way of doing it or if it may cause additional problems but I don't see why it would becuase the only packages you need are awesome and cairo.

I never had activated the community-testing repo until I wanted to give awesome a try, but when I looked on the Arch packages page, I realized that there is barely anything in the repo (only like 23 packages) so it really doesn't affect my system. I would assume that Awesome should be moving back to the regular community repo soon bc packages usually don't stay there for too long from what I have heard. It sounds like it should be good to move once the new cairo that includes xcb (which is required by awesome) is pushed out.

As for the awesome-git version being stable, it sounds like it is decent but it is constantly going through changes. A lot of the information available on the wiki regarding the rc.lua config file would not be useful bc there have been a few pretty major changes to the format from what I have read/heard. There is a page regarding changing the config from 3.4 to git so if you go the git route make sure to check that out (link below).

http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Awesom … git_master Hope this helps !

Last edited by boswbr25 (2012-05-07 02:03:02)

ibrunton · 2012-05-07 02:29:41

I enabled [community-testing] just long enough to install awesome (and cairo from [testing]), then disabled the testing repos again. Nothing else got updated from those repos, and it worked fine. I'm sure awesome and cairo will move to their respective standard repos soon, but I was impatient.

tokoro · 2012-05-13 00:21:59

Nevermind, it's in Community now.

Arch Linux

#1 2012-05-06 23:33:45

[SOLVED] Installing awesome without enabling community-testing?

#2 2012-05-07 02:00:32

Re: [SOLVED] Installing awesome without enabling community-testing?

#3 2012-05-07 02:29:41

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#4 2012-05-13 00:21:59

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