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sirplatypus

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Registered: 2017-09-17

Posts: 25

Trouble Installing Unity for Arch

I have just installed Arch Linux and am trying to install Unity (the desktop environment, not Unity3D).  I have compiled it from source (wondering why they discontinued maintaining the binaries long before Unity was discontinued), but cannot figure out how to get it to start.
 
    When I install lightdm-ubuntu and enable lightdm.service, the boot loader stops upon reaching the part where it is supposed to launch lightdm.  I have been unable to find any instructions for how to start it without a display manager (which is the preferred method in my case).  Whenever I try to install the lightdm-unity-greeter package, the installation process quits for various reasons (first it was a gtk conflict, then some others, it changes every time.).  I would like to be able to start unity after logging in without a display manager, can anyone tell me how to do that? (Just knowing how to start Unity from the command line would be good too.)

Last edited by sirplatypus (2017-09-17 15:45:20)

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circleface

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Registered: 2012-05-26

Posts: 639

Re: Trouble Installing Unity for Arch

The main problem with Unity is that Canonical modifies libraries to add features.  So compiling on a different system like Arch is very difficult to do.  Chances are, you missed a library that Unity needs to work.  To be honest I don't think many if any people have ever gotten Unity to work under Arch.  Check https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=125423 for more info.