Hi I saw the correction you made on the web page and thought you should list it here as well :)
root@/sawfish/librep-0.92.0# make installation change to: root@/sawfish/librep-0.92.0# make install thanks Jim On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Darth Emacs <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > I've build a page on our wiki site for installing sawfish 1.8.1 on Debian > 6.0.1a. The new page can be found at: > > http://sawfish.wikia.com/wiki/Debianinstall > > and is link from the Download page: > > http://sawfish.wikia.com/wiki/Download > > Below is a copy of the document in case someone hits the archives first > looking for the page. If someone uses the install could you let me know if I > made any errors so that I can fix it or just go to the page and do the > correction yourself. > > Installing sawfish 1.8.1 on Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.1a (squeeze) 20110522 > > > The system that sawfish 1.8.1 will be built on is a simple Debian > GNU/Linux 6.0.1a install with a gnome desktop. The machine is a > Hewlett-Packard mini 210 netbook. > > > Open a terminal and create a directory as user for the sawfish source > files.. > > > :~$ mkdir sawfish > > > Change into the sawfish directory and download (wget) the source files > from http://download.tuxfamily.org for the sawfish 1.8.1 build. > > > :~$ cd sawfish > > > :~/sawfish$ wget > http://download.tuxfamily.org/librep/librep-0.92.0.tar.bz2 > > > :~/sawfish$ wget > http://download.tuxfamily.org/librep/rep-gtk/rep-gtk-0.90.6.tar.bz2 > > > :~/sawfish$ wget > http://download.tuxfamily.org/sawfish/sawfish-1.8.1.tar.bz2 > > > :~/sawfish$ wget > http://downloads.tuxfamily.org/sawfishpager/sawfish-pager-0.90.2.tar.bz2 > > > Extract the code from the tar.bz2 files. > > > :~/sawfish$ tar -xvjf librep-0.92.0.tar.bz2 > > > :~/sawfish$ tar -xvjf rep-gtk-0.90.6.tar.bz2 > > > :~/sawfish$ tar -xvjf sawfish-1.8.1.tar.bz2 > > > :~/sawfish$ tar -xvjf sawfish-pager-0.90.2.tar.bz2 > > > There are dependencies for sawfish 1.8.1 that must be installed prior to > building the sawfish window manager. These dependencies are listed on the > sawfish homepage download page at http://sawfish.wikia.com/wiki/Download : > > > gtk+ >= 2.12 > > pango (optional, but recommended for UTF-8 support) > > gdk-pixbuf-xlib OR imlib1 (imlib2 is currently not supported) > > GNU autotools to compile. > > > After a bit of googling we arrive at the squeeze packages that we will > need. First though go into superuser mode. > > > ~/sawfish$ su > > > root@/sawfish# aptitude install gettext autoconf libltdl-dev automake > libtool autotools-dev gcc libreadline-dev readline-common libffi-dev > libgdbm-dev libgmp3-dev libgmp3-doc libgtk2.0-doc libgtk2.0-dev > libpango1.0-dev libpango1.0-doc lsb-build-desktop3 > > > Next superuser back into your user mode. > > > root@/sawfish# su (put your user name here) > > > OK. Now we are ready to start building our sawfish 1.8.1 installation. > Change into the librep directory. > > > :~/sawfish$ cd librep-0.92.0 > > > Rather than the usual use of ./configure we will be using the > ./autogen.sh command. From this point onward if you get out error messages > you will have to go to the sawfish mail list archives to resolve the issue. > If you can't find your answer in the archives then go on the end-user mail > list and ask for some help. > > > :~/sawfish/librep-0.92.0$ ./autogen.sh > > > Now we “make” the source. > > > :~/sawfish/librep-0.92.0$ make > > > Change yourself into the superuser. > > > :~/sawfish/librep-0.92.0$ su > > > Run the installation as root. > > > root@/sawfish/librep-0.92.0# make installation > > > Since debian will put your installation into /usr/local/ you have to put > it into your path. > > > root@/sawfish/librep-0.92.0# ldconfig > > > Next superuser back into your user mode. > > > root@/sawfish/librep-0.92.0# su (put your user name here) > > > Move back up into the sawfish directory. > > > :~/sawfish/librep-0.92.0$ cd ../ > > > The rest of the installation is very similar to the above installation of > librep so only commands are listed from this point onward. See you at the > end of the install! > > > :~/sawfish$ cd rep-gtk-0.90.6 > > > :~/sawfish/rep-gtk-0.90.6$ ./autogen.sh > > > :~/sawfish/rep-gtk-0.90.6$ make > > > :~/sawfish/rep-gtk-0.90.6$ su > > > root@/sawfish/rep-gtk-0.90.6# make install > > > root@/sawfish/rep-gtk-0.90.6# libtool --finish /usr/local/lib/rep > > > root@/sawfish/rep-gtk-0.90.6# su (put your user name here) > > > :~/sawfish/rep-gtk-0.90.6$ cd ../ > > > :~/sawfish$ cd sawfish-1.8.1 > > > :~/sawfish/sawfish-1.8.1$ ./autogen.sh > > > :~/sawfish/sawfish-1.8.1$ make > > > :~/sawfish/sawfish-1.8.1$ su > > > root@/sawfish/sawfish-1.8.1# make install > > > root@/sawfish/sawfish-1.8.1# su (put your user name here) > > > :~/sawfish/sawfish-1.8.1$ cd ../ > > > :~/sawfish$ cd sawfish-pager-0.90.2 > > > :~/sawfish/sawfish-pager-0.90.2$ ./autogen.sh > > > :~/sawfish/sawfish-pager-0.90.2$ make > > > :~/sawfish/sawfish-pager-0.90.2$ su > > > root@/sawfish/sawfish-pager-0.90.2# make install > > > root@/sawfish/sawfish-pager-0.90.2# su (put your user name here) > > > :~/sawfish/sawfish-pager-0.90.2$ cd ../ > > > :~/sawfish$ cd ../ > > > Now go to the sawfish homepage and configure your new sawfish 1.8.1 > window manager the way you would like it to be! > > > > -- > * Darth Emacs * > > “Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it > holds the universe together. <http://thinkexist.com/quotes/oprah_winfrey/> > ” > >
