libxdg in Slack 14.0
 

Hello fellow Slack users. I was actually just curious about something; Has anyone installed libxdg in Slackware64 14.0? I'm trying to install Awesome.

libxdg-basedir
 

I used the attached slackbuild script to install libxdg-basedir-1.2.0 (as a dependency of i3wm)

Are you sure it has ever been i3's dependency?

I stand corrected; it was a dependency of dunst (notification daemon).

Ok, but don't I need the source as well?

Indeed, source can be had here:
https://github.com/devnev/libxdg-basedir/releases

EDIT: upon inspection of the buildscript I noticed that the source link does not exist any longer. So you have to get it from the github link and save it with the slackbuild in the same directory.

Here's where I got the slackbuild script from (and slack-desc as well as slack-required files, which may be needed for the script):
https://github.com/PhantomX/slackbui...libxdg-basedir

Seems I'm doing something wrong. I moved both the slackbuild and the source to a directory, chmod the slackbuild, run the slackbuild, receive this:

So obviously the site is down. My internet connection is fine though.

That's strange.

I have the following:
and when I run the script it untar's the source archive:
Did you get the correct version, i.e. libxdg-basedir-1.2.0.tar.gz ?

I did get version 1.2.0 yes. It turned out to be a problem with the file name. Once I fixed it, it started to work until I get this error now:

This is line 107 of the slackbuild:

That's because the archive is not extracted to libxdg-basedir-1.2.0/ but libxdg-basedir-libxdg-basedir-1.2.0/
My mistake for not checking the git archive I linked to.

Get the source file from my ftp server, it should extract fine and will work with the script:
[ url removed ]

Hope this helps.

Thanks it worked for me and I got it installed successfully. However when I went to compile the awesome packages I get this error:

I guess I missed a package? I read somewhere that I need libstartup-notification as well. I just installed this package:

But I'm still getting the same error when I try and run make, in the awesome directory.

I have no experience with awesome, but this is your clue:
which is part of xcb-util-cursor, another Slackware package.

I'd very much recommend you to do a full Slackware install.

Ok, well perhaps I will reinstall yet again. However, for the sake of this thread humor me for a moment. Because I'm pretty sure at this point that I've finally installed all the packages I need. I've installed the cursor util package. Once again ran make, and I've arrived at yet another error:

I've tried but I can't really seem to make sense of this particular error.

Have you installed xcb-util-wm?

Am I doing something wrong? The most recent packages such as: xcb-cursor, xcb-util-wm, startup-notification, so forth... have just been downloaded from the slackware package website, and immediately installed using installpkg xcb-util-cursor-0.1.0-x86_64-1.txz or whatever.

Because I'm still getting errors. How many packages do I need?

No, Awesome has always been a pain to install on slackware.

Lots. Look at the dependencies required in Arch Linux - does it look like you have all the bases covered? imlib2, lua, and lua-lgi don't come with Slackware, just off the top of my head.

When I wanted to try out awesome, I ran into this a lot too. I eventually ended up running i3 - it's quite capable, and is available in SlackBuilds.

awesome requires a newer cairo (with xcb backend enabled) than the one of slackware-14.0 and you cannot simply upgrade the packages of 14.0 with the packages of -current.
so if you want to use it you have to switch to -current or, in the very near future, to slackware-14.1.

https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...0/#post4900329

So I need to uninstall all the xcb packages that I just installed and reinstall them from the current repositories?

No, you need to upgrade your entire system - that is, every package - to -current. Official instructions are here, and community instructions are here - either should do.

EDIT: I would personally suggest installing every package that comes with Slackware - with the possible exceptions of the KDE, KDEI, and XFCE sets - so that building packages is a little more consistent. Slackware really is best as a 'batteries included' distro.

if you still got a partial installation of Slackware, this still applies

https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...5/#post5053025

if you want to stay on 14.0 and you feel very brave (but remember that you will break your warranty ;) ) you can also rebuild cairo enabling xcb support: just download cairo's slackware sources and add a line to the configure parameters in cairo.SlackBuild
then rebuild it and upgrade the standard cairo package with the just rebuilt one.
but consider that in that cairo version xcb support is still considered unstable: things may break so do it under your own responsibility.

Woo a lot of responses so I'll address them all presently.

First, I've already enabled xcb support on cairo just the way you said it. Second; oddly enough, since this thread started I've actually already reinstalled Slackware with a full install(except for the KDE, and KDEI sets). Ok, so let me get this straight. I need to upgrade my entire system to -current? Would upgrading to -current also upgrade the xcb packages and awesome dependencies I've installed?

EDIT: Let me add some details for clarity. I'm roughly following this guide: http://www.slackword.net/?p=93

I'm currently getting hung up at this part:

Once I run make I get this error:

Also, just for clarity, here's all the xcb packages installed:

I obviously wasn't following the website guide to a tee because it's for Slackware 13.37 and whatnot, but it's worked thus far up until the aforementioned point.

yesterday I reviewed, tested and approved the awesome submission for slackware-14.0 on SlackBuilds.org: it will probably be removed from there, as it's not acceptable to have in our repository a package that implies a rebuild of a package in stock Slackware, but at least for a few days it will be up for grabs (then it will probably be moved exclusively in the 14.1 repository).

the recipe to have it working is:
- have a full (clean) installation of slackware;
- rebuild cairo enabling xcb support as explained above (don't do it if on -current/14.1);
- install lua, lgi, libxdg-basedir and awesome;
- enjoy!

@slack_: the errors you posted above are truncated.

There's a typo in the libxdg-basedir.Slackbuild script on SBo (line 68):

no, that's because it's supposed that you get the sources with the wget option --content-disposition (content_disposition = on in /etc/wgetrc), like when you are downloading from the browser.

I see. But the wget --content-disposition option is off by default. Would it be wise to enable it (e.g. in ~/.wgetrc), or is that likely to break other scripts?

I usually keep it enabled and haven't found any problem so far (it applies mainly when downloading from github archives).

They are aren't they.. As far as the recipe you gave me, I have pretty much fulfilled it. I have a full install(minus KDE and KDEI package sets), I have enabled xcb in cairo and rebuilt it, and as for those packages you mentioned, I have them all installed..

Except one: lgi

In all the tutorials and things I've read on the internet about installing Awesome in Slackware, I've never once come across anything that mentioned lgi. So, I'm crossing my fingers hoping that this is the savior package that I was missing.

Side Note: I have no --content-disposition option in my /etc/wgetrc at all.

EDIT: Ok, well I don't know if I should start over from scratch, but I've installed all of those packages from the specific links that you gave me and when I tried to run the slackbuild I got this error:

I'd really rather not have to reinstall slackware once again in order to start this from scratch. Although it does seem as though I've ended up installing far more packages then I actually needed.

slack_, it seems you haven't followed the advice I gave you on how to have a full slackware installation, because you still haven't one: the error is
so I looked for that missing type between the system headers
from what this grep say, you're missing the package xcb-util-wm.

please install a full slackware before reporting more errors ;)

Hhm, that's odd. If I look in packages:

ls /var/log/packages | grep xcb

Then the output is:

I can try to reinstall it and see if that works. I swear I have a full system, as I've said I excluded the KDE and the KDEI sets.

EDIT:

Yet it still doesn't work. I'm sorry I can't be more helpful. Maybe I should install xcb-util-wm from a different place. I downloaded it from the slackware-packages siteand since it was a .txz I just installed in straight away with installpkg. Was this wrong?

Well, I've performed yet another reinstall in order to be completely sure that it was a full, clean install. Then I enabled xcb on cairo and installed all the other recommended packages. This time, it finally worked. Thanks for the help everyone. Marking as solved.

Just wanted to share the required packages to install awesome 3.5.1(from slackbuilds)

From Current(install these first before install the sbopkg list
SBOPKG
There is no slackware package for vicious like other distributions package vicious in a package. Here is my other post to install the vicious widgets.Vicious Need to install the vicious plugin(libraries) if you want the widgets.

Don't forget to when building cairo as noted in the awesome slackbuild from the site and in the sbopkg.