Help setting up dwm with ABS

finferflu · 2007-08-26 18:24:14

Hello,

I have been pointed out dwm as a cool window manager, and it indeed is very cool (I'm starting to prefer it over wmii), however I have no clue as to how to configure it.

I have read that I had to use ABS in order to recompile it every time (for my custom changes to dwm to be applied), so I was reading the howto in the wiki, but I can't locate the dwm package, so I have no clue about what to do.

Please consider this is my first experience with ABS, even though I have used some PKGBUILDs, so any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

shining · 2007-08-26 18:30:19

I don't recommend using ABS / makepkg for dwm, since that stupid wm needs to be recompiled every time you need to change the config.
Just compile / install manually, it'll put it in /usr/local/ by default which is fine (separated from all arch packages).

finferflu · 2007-08-26 18:49:41

Ok, thanks... I hate the thing I have to recompile every time, but the functionality is so awesome

azerty · 2007-08-28 15:07:49

If you install dwm by '# make && make install', it will be install into /usr/local/bin and it's Man-Page will be situated at /usr/local/share/man.

As /usr/local/bin and and /usr/local/share/man aren't activated by default at Archlinux, you have to add them to the PATH- and MANPATH-variable in /etc/profile.

If you don't do this, the system just wont be able find the dwm executable and and it's manual.

Sigi · 2007-08-28 17:59:14

I'd recomend you to use ABS to compile dwm - which I happen to do myself.
Get abs if you haven't yet:

pacman -Sy cvsup wget

Uncomment [community] in /etc/abs.conf
run

abs

, copy the dwm folder in /var/abs/../../.. into /var/abs/local, cd into /var/abs/local/dwm and change config.h as you desire. Run makepkg and install it with pacman -U dwm-4.4.1-...

Advantages: dwm is "handeled" by pacman which should be the case on a clean Arch system. A simple "abs" gets you the newest dwm PKGBUILD as soon a new version is out.

finferflu · 2007-08-28 18:47:14

Sigi, thanks for your help! However the md5sum check failed, since I have changed the config.h file, shall I just delete the md5sum field?

Edit:
By the way, how do I get rid of the package I have installed manually (which is now in /usr/local)?

Last edited by finferflu (2007-08-28 18:53:24)

shining · 2007-08-28 19:07:58

finferflu wrote:

Sigi, thanks for your help! However the md5sum check failed, since I have changed the config.h file, shall I just delete the md5sum field?
Edit:
By the way, how do I get rid of the package I have installed manually (which is now in /usr/local)?

Go in dwm source dir, then make uninstall .
You can have a look at the Makefile to see the available make targets and what they do.

finferflu · 2007-08-28 20:08:04

Ok, thanks a lot, it worked. I asked because usually make uninstall does not work or doesn't work properly... I guess I have been quite unlucky...

jofa · 2007-08-29 10:06:57

finferflu wrote:

Sigi, thanks for your help! However the md5sum check failed, since I have changed the config.h file, shall I just delete the md5sum field?

You can exec these three commands to generate new md5sums, overwrite previous files and update dwm:

makepkg -g >> PKGBUILD && makepkg -f && pacman -U dwm-4.4-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz

finferflu · 2007-08-29 14:15:09

jofa wrote:

finferflu wrote:
Sigi, thanks for your help! However the md5sum check failed, since I have changed the config.h file, shall I just delete the md5sum field?
You can exec these three commands to generate new md5sums, overwrite previous files and update dwm:
makepkg -g >> PKGBUILD && makepkg -f && pacman -U dwm-4.4-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz

I get a

bash: PKGBUILD: Permission denied

And I'm running the command as root (with sudo).

Last edited by finferflu (2007-08-29 14:15:36)

shining · 2007-08-29 14:29:07

finferflu wrote:

jofa wrote:
finferflu wrote:
Sigi, thanks for your help! However the md5sum check failed, since I have changed the config.h file, shall I just delete the md5sum field?
You can exec these three commands to generate new md5sums, overwrite previous files and update dwm:
makepkg -g >> PKGBUILD && makepkg -f && pacman -U dwm-4.4-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
I get a
bash: PKGBUILD: Permission denied
And I'm running the command as root (with sudo).

sudo only applies to makepkg -g , not the >> redirection which actually writes to the file.

Anyway, you only need to run pacman -U as root, the other steps shouldn't be run as root. Just use a directory where you have write permission.

finferflu · 2007-08-29 16:19:01

Ok, thanks, I'll look into that. I have chowned /var/abs/local to my user, I hope it's fine, since I think it's the most practical thing to do, not sure about security...

shining · 2007-08-29 16:49:02

finferflu wrote:

Ok, thanks, I'll look into that. I have chowned /var/abs/local to my user, I hope it's fine, since I think it's the most practical thing to do, not sure about security...

That's what I do as well.

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