Building awesome

From awesome

Here are instructions for building awesome on different platforms.

Contents 1 Debian 2 Gentoo 3 Fedora 4 Mandriva 5 Ubuntu 6 Arch Linux 7 FreeBSD 8 Aurora 9 Slackware 10 Sabayon Linux 11 PLD Linux 12 GIT / universal

[edit] Debian

• Awesome-3-debian - Installing Awesome3 on Debian/Lenny.
• Awesome-3-git-debian - Building Debian packages from Awesome GIT version.

[edit] Gentoo

• Awesome-3-Gentoo-Paludis - Build awesome 3 release or current git with your package manager.
• Awesome-3-git-Gentoo - Build awesome 3 from git locally.

[edit] Fedora

• Awesome-3-fedora - Building awesome on fedora platform

[edit] Mandriva

• Awesome-3-Mandriva-Spring Building awesome 3.2.1 on Mandriva 2009 Spring
• Awesome-3-Mandriva-Cooker - Building awesome 3.3 on Mandriva Cooker

[edit] Ubuntu

• Awesome-3-Ubuntu-git - Building awesome 3.0 on Ubuntu Hardy from a git checkout.
• Awesome-3-git-Ubuntu-Intrepid - Building awesome on Ubuntu Intrepid from a git checkout
• Ubuntu Gutsy - Building awesome on Ubuntu and setting it up for use with gdm.
• Ubuntu Hardy - Building awesome on Ubuntu and setting it up for use with gdm.

[edit] Arch Linux

• Arch Linux - Install awesome on Arch Linux

[edit] FreeBSD

FreeBSD-Installation explains the installation in detail. The short version is:

 cd /usr/ports/x11-wm/awesome && make install clean

(/usr/ports/x11-wm/awesome2 is still available)

[edit] Aurora

• AuroraUX - Building and Installing Awesome 2/3.

[edit] Slackware

• Awesome-3-Slackware - SlackBuilds for building Awesome on Slackware

[edit] Sabayon Linux

(As root, in a terminal)

• Entropy version:

 equo update && equo install awesome

• Portage version:

 emerge [options] awesome

[edit] PLD Linux

Run install awesome in poldek (or run poldek -i awesome).

[edit] GIT / universal

• Awesome-3-git - Building awesome on any *nix platform from a git checkout.