Awesome-3-RHEL6
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Steps to build and install Awesome 3 on RHEL6 Beta
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Prerequisite
- Install Development tools and Desktop Platform Development.
yum groupinstall -y 'Development tools' 'Desktop Platform Development'
- Install ImageMagick, startup-notification and readline.
yum install -y ImageMagick startup-notification startup-notification-devel readline readline-devel
- Set PKG_CONFIG_PATH to include /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/. Note, if you open a new terminal/session, don't forget to set this variable.
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/"
- Get cmake, build and install it. Tested with version 2.8.1.
./bootstrap && make && make install
- Get gperf, build and install it. Tested with version 3.0.4.
./configure && make && make install
- Get imlib2, build and install it. Tested with version 1.4.4.
./configure && make && make install
- Get libev, build and install it. Tested with version 3.9.
./configure && make && make install
- Get libpthread-stubs xcb-proto libxcb xcb-util, build and install in this order. Tested with version 0.3 of libpthread-stubs, 1.6 of libxcb, 1.6 of xcb-proto and 0.3.6 of xcb-util.
- For all
./configure && make && make install
- Get libxdg-basedir, build and install it. Tested with version 1.1.0.
./configure && make && make install
- Get Lua, build and install it. Tested with version 5.1.4.
make linux && make install
- Get Cairo, build and install it. Tested with version 1.8.10.
./configure --enable-xcb && make && make install
Awesome
- Get Awesome, build and install it. Tested with version 3.4.5.
make && make install
After Installation
- Awesome is installed in /usr/local/.
- You need a configuration file for awesome in your home (~/.config/awesome/rc.lua). The default is in /usr/local/etc/xdg/awesome/.
- To run Awesome you have to add /usr/local/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf and run ldconfig, otherwise Awesome is not able to find some libraries.
Notes
- Documentation of Awesome isn't available. To build you need xmlto, asciidoc and luadoc.
- I tried to rebuild cairo with xcb enabled from SRC-RPM, but no luck I got a error about missing xcb. Furthermore a update of the cairo package from Red Hat will break the awesome build.
