-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/06/12 20:37, Rainer M Krug wrote: > On 09/06/12 19:18, Uli Schlachter wrote: >> On 09.06.2012 19:04, Rainer M Krug wrote: [...] >>> OK - I installed awesome in a non-standard location by using >>> >>> cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/rkrug/inst/awesome/ make make install >>> >>> which looks fine for me, as I can easily delete th directory >>> /home/rkrug/inst/awesome/ and >>> it is gone. In addition, it does not interfere with my Ubuntu stable >>> awesome install, and >>> the debian menu is still there. >>> >>> So: But how can I use my new installation? I could specify the path to the >>> new awesome in >>> the xsessions file to start it, but I assume that awesome-client will then >>> be the one >>> installed system wide? > >> awesome-client should be identical between both versions. It's just a shell >> script, so you >> could use "diff" to check for differences. > > Makes sense - I'll check. And if I modyfy PATH as you suggest below, the new > awesome-client > would be used anyway. > > >>> Is there an easy way, of using my git awesone installation, but still >>> having the stable one >>> installed via ubuntu available? > >> I guess I'd just add that path to $PATH: > >> PATH=/home/rkrug/inst/awesome/bin:$PATH > >> Since it comes before /usr/bin in $PATH, the apps in there would be found >> first. > > Modifying the PATH would certainly acommodate that the new version would be > used, but what > about the lua libraries? What are the seach paths for these? > > If I modify PATH and start awesome, will it first look for lua libraries in > /home/rkrug/inst/awesome/lib ?
OK - next problem: lgi: /inst/awesome/share/awesome/lib/gears/surface.lua:13: lgi too old, need at least version 0.7 (not yet released?) or recent git Ubuntu is 0.5.1 Is there an easy way to solve this? Rainer > > Rainer > > > >>> I am a little reluctant to remove the ubuntu one, as then the debian menu >>> would be removed >>> and possibly other features as well. >> [...] > >> Uli > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk/TnY8ACgkQoYgNqgF2egoiYwCeLTXGx1dgtrEWhr1kx/KfFPyo 7ugAn2/6+bK4plvSqOinXHBwLYwM+XgS =aR2J -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, send mail to awesome-unsubscr...@naquadah.org.
