AwesomeWM on Opensuse 11.4

Eax · May 27, 2011, 1:09pm

Hi there,

How do I install AwesomWM on OpenSUSE 11.4?

It’s not in the Window Managers Repo for 11.4, but it is for 11.3?

Best Regards

DenverD · May 27, 2011, 1:43pm

On 05/27/2011 01:36 PM, Eax wrote:
>
> How do I install AwesomWM on OpenSUSE 11.4?

never heard of it, but google has:
https://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Main_Page

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Eax · May 27, 2011, 2:52pm

It doesn’t cover how to actually install it :S Only how to install it through the package manager in OpenSUSE, but the 11.4 repo doesn’t contain Awesome :S

DawthLasu · May 27, 2011, 3:15pm

Hi there,

If you take a look here https://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Building_awesome it doesn’t in fact list OpenSUSE, however you could always try and build it from source, shouldn’t be too hard, it would also mean you’d get the most up to date build.

Also could be a bit of fun

martin_helm · May 27, 2011, 3:13pm

Eax wrote:

>
> It doesn’t cover how to actually install it :S Only how to install it
> through the package manager in OpenSUSE, but the 11.4 repo doesn’t
> contain Awesome :S
>
>
You can fetch the src rpm for 11.3 and try to rebuild it on your 11.4
(with rpm --rebuild <packagename>).
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/windowmanagers/openSUSE_11.3/src/awesome-3.4.9-1.1.src.rpm

martin_helm · May 27, 2011, 3:16pm

martin_helm wrote:

> You can fetch the src rpm for 11.3 and try to rebuild it on your 11.4
> (with rpm --rebuild <packagename>).

sorry a typo of course “rpmbuild --rebuild …”

Eax · May 27, 2011, 3:37pm

I’m trying to do just that from the Git clone, but there’s no makefile and no configure, so I don’t really know how to proceed

Their download page DOES list opensuse ><

Eax · May 27, 2011, 3:38pm

Thank you, I will try just that

martin_helm · May 27, 2011, 4:11pm

Eax wrote:
> Thank you, I will try just that
>
I cannot tell you if it works, I guess you will have to install some
dependencies (rpmbuild should tell you which), but I think its worth a try.

martin_helm · May 27, 2011, 4:22pm

martin_helm wrote:

> Eax wrote:
>> Thank you, I will try just that
>>
> I cannot tell you if it works, I guess you will have to install some
> dependencies (rpmbuild should tell you which), but I think its worth a
> try.
>
I just noticed that the binary rpm from 11.3 (awesome-3.4.9-1.1.x86_64.rpm
in my case) can be installed in 11.4 (I cannot test right now if it works)
without complaints.

Eax · May 27, 2011, 4:45pm

I get the error:

– package ‘cairo-xcb’ not found
CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake/Modules/FindPkgConfig.cmake:266 (message):
A required package was not found
Call Stack (most recent call first):
/usr/share/cmake/Modules/FindPkgConfig.cmake:320 (_pkg_check_modules_internal)
awesomeConfig.cmake:132 (pkg_check_modules)
CMakeLists.txt:15 (include)

CMake Error at awesomeConfig.cmake:154 (message):
Call Stack (most recent call first):
CMakeLists.txt:15 (include)

– Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.l0zIKQ (%build)

RPM build errors:
Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.l0zIKQ (%build)

But I can’t seem to find a package/rpm for cairo-xcb?

malcolmlewis · May 27, 2011, 5:13pm

Hi
Same reason it fails on OBS…
https://build.opensuse.org/package/live_build_log?arch=i586&package=awesome&project=X11%3Awindowmanagers&repository=openSUSE_11.4

I see there is and Awesome2, but that also has issues…
https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=awesome2&project=X11%3Awindowmanagers

martin_helm · May 27, 2011, 5:53pm

malcolmlewis wrote:

>
> Hi
> Same reason it fails on OBS…
> http://tinyurl.com/3h236nw
>
> I see there is and Awesome2, but that also has issues…
> http://tinyurl.com/43bng3q
>
From what I understand the cairo-xcb mentioned by cmake is not a missing rpm
package but comes from the way cairo is compiled (there is a configure
switch for cairo which enables that, but it seems to be incompatible with
the other switches which are used for cairo in openSUSE).
I will later look if it is possible to compile the newer awesome 3.4.10
directly from source without too much trouble.

martin_helm · May 27, 2011, 6:07pm

Ok you need to rebuild cairo. The description for rpm is given at this page
(it is for fedora but the tools are the same in openSUSE to rebuild it with
the --enable-xcb switch).

https://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Awesome-3-fedora

src rpm is fetched with “zypper si cairo”.

I will report back when I know more.

Eax · May 27, 2011, 6:47pm

Thank you very much

martin_helm · May 28, 2011, 12:11am

I wanted to start on that now, but before I did I checked again the OBS and
found that several users already built awesome for 11.4 in their home
rpositories.
I would say have a look at it.
http://tinyurl.com/3kwerac

user · May 28, 2011, 6:07am

On 05/27/2011 04:36 AM, Eax wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> How do I install AwesomWM on OpenSUSE 11.4?
>
> It’s not in the Window Managers Repo for 11.4, but it is for 11.3?
>
> Best Regards
>
>

I’ve tried to build ‘awesome’ from the tarball, but I’ve failed to
compile: issues with ‘cairo’, in particular. You are unlikely to succeed
with this approach.

If you don’t mind using an unofficial repo, the following is the one
from which I downloaded:

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/eugeneus:/awesome/openSUSE_11.4/

I am using ‘awesome’ now. From the above repo, I have:

awesome 3.49
awesome-opensuse
awesome-vicious
cairo-devel
cairo-tools
libcairo-gobject2
libcairo-script-interpreter2
libcairo2

I don’t know if all of these packages are needed to run ‘awesome’; but,
with 1-click install (from the Package Search page, ‘Search option’
“Include users’ home project” ticked), I got booted out to KDM
immediately and could not get into ‘awesome’. So, I installed
likely-needed packages.

You need also ‘xdg’ packages. I don’t know which are actually required
merely to use ‘awesome’. As I said, I had been trying to compile from
the ‘awesome’ tarball; all sorts of -devel packages are installed.

The configuration file is ~/.config/awesome/rc.lua.

Eax · May 28, 2011, 12:29pm

Thank you very much! I’m trying this As we speak!