[SOLVED] Install awesome

myle · 2012-05-07 20:45:24

How can I do it?

pacman -S awesome does not work since awesome depends on cairo which is in testing. How could I install awesome without going to testing? Could I just get cairo from testing? Will it affect my system in any other way (I currently use Gnome 3).

Moreover, I did not find a package in AUR (I don't want git version, at least for now).

Thanks for any answer

Last edited by myle (2012-05-08 15:29:30)

Pres · 2012-05-07 20:54:24

Looks like the awesome package itself is still in testing. How are you able to pacman -S that if you don't have the testing repo enabled in the first place?

myle · 2012-05-07 21:05:34

How can I enable the testing repo?
/etc/pacman.conf and pacman -Syu didn't help too much.

[testing]
#SigLevel = PackageRequired
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

Trilby · 2012-05-07 21:08:25

I'm not going to advise enabling testing, but if that is your goal you'll need to `pacman -Syy` after changing pacman.conf

Gcool · 2012-05-07 21:08:28

Awesome is in [community-testing].

myle · 2012-05-07 21:12:52

Thank you. I installed awesome from testing (it was the only package from there), I disabled testing and I ran again `pacman -Syy`. Do I have to worry about something?

pacman -Syu does not output anything to upgrade, so I guess it is fine?

(I had upgraded the system just before going to testing)

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I am trying to log in, but after inserting my password on gdm, it displays briefly a black screen (for a split second) and the back to the login manager). Do you know what I have overlooked? wiki didn't help much.

Same problem (or at least looks like): http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.wi … esome/8072
No solution though. To be more precise, I can't log in even after ctrl+alt+f1 > startx awesome.

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It turns out I can't properly shut down gdm.

Last edited by myle (2012-05-07 22:33:54)

ANOKNUSA · 2012-05-07 21:59:59

Check this out, see if it helps.

myle · 2012-05-07 22:01:48

Thanks! But I would like to try awesome independently from gnome, if it is possible.

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I stopped gdm. It was not the root of the problem.

I read this:
http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/ … 17852.html
which is kind of disappointing.

Has anyone installed successfully awesome? How did you do it?

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Solved. Thanks to whoever edited the wiki accordingly.

Last edited by myle (2012-05-08 15:29:10)

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