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| - | arch | + | ====== Installing EDE on Arch Linux ====== |
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| + | When installing EDE on an Arch Linux machine you can choose between using a custom repository provided by EDE or building the packages yourself. Using the former method, pacman will take care of updating EDE if a new version is released on the EDE repository. | ||
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| + | ===== Installing pre-built packages ===== | ||
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| + | **Note: All packages in the EDE repository are currently //unsigned//!** | ||
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| + | Installing EDE can be done in 4 simple steps: | ||
| + | - Open your pacman configuration file (///etc/pacman.conf//) with your favorite editor<<BR>> | ||
| + | - Add the following lines to it (you can just leave the //$arch// variable as it is; your system knows it): <code> | ||
| + | [ede] | ||
| + | SigLevel = Never | ||
| + | Server = http://www.equinox-project.org/repos/arch/$arch | ||
| + | </code> | ||
| + | - Update pacman database files by invoking: **pacman -Syy**<<BR>> | ||
| + | - Simply install EDE like any other package. E.g.: **pacman -S ede** | ||
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| + | ===== Available packages ===== | ||
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| + | EDE for Arch is split into four packages: | ||
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| + | * **edelib** - EDE's support library which implements functions not provided by FLTK | ||
| + | * **ede-common** - Platform independent data for EDE (e.g. icons) | ||
| + | * **ede** - EDE and PekWM binaries | ||
| + | * **ede-wallpapers** - __Optional__ wallpaper package | ||
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| + | ===== Trouble shooting ===== | ||
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| + | If you're experiencing difficulties, it might help tp add the lines mentioned above at the beginning of the file //pacman.conf// instead of appending them at the end. | ||
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| + | ==== Building / installing from source ===== | ||
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| + | For Arch Linux there are two **PKGBUILD** files available in the [[https://aur.archlinux.org/|AUR]]: //edelib// and //ede//. You can download those and use the Arch Build System to create the packages. | ||
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| + | Alternatively you can of course follow the generic building procedure, too: InstallingFromSource. | ||
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| + | ===== Starting EDE ===== | ||
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| + | You can either use a graphical login manager to bring up EDE or simply use xorg's //startx// command (make sure you have installed the package //xorg-xinit// in the later case. It is not part of //xorg-server// on Arch Linux!). If you want to use //startx//, just create a new file **.xinitrc** with the content //exec startede// in your home directory. You can do so with the following two commands: | ||
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| + | <code> | ||
| + | cd | ||
| + | echo "exec startede" > .xinitrc | ||
| + | </code> | ||
