[Salix32 XFCE 13.37] AWN - Avant Window Navigator

[Outlaw]

Hi,

I tried to install AWN.

a) It's not available in the repositories as binary, but there is a "slackbuild".

Trying to install it with slapt-src lead to the error "gtk-doc >1.4 required", build stopped ...

Couldn't find, update or install gtk-doc (gtk-doc-tools gtk-doc* and so on, however named) package with GSlapt / slapt-get .

b) Searching for a binary I found it precompiled for slackware 13.37 here - http://pkgs.org/slackware-13.37/slacky- ... l.txz.html

After installing it didn't run 'cause of "avant-window-navigator: error while loading shared libraries: libdesktop-agnostic-ui.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" .. something like libdesktop* oder *agnostic wasn't found in the package database ...

I have no more ideas ...

Greetz

Outlaw

[laprjns]

yeah, that's the bad thing about slapt-src for us lazy slackers, dependancy hell

You need to do the following
slapt-get -i gcc-java
slapt-src -i gobject-introspection
slapt-get -i vala
slapt-src -i libdesktop-agnostic
slapt-src -i libgtop
slapt-src -i avant-window-navigator
Note the use of slapt-get and slapt-src. I always use package from the salix repo first. Now with all the dependencies installed, awn did build but I got an error when the package was installed.

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lackware package /usr/src/slapt-src/desktop/avant-window-navigator/avant-window-navigator-0.4.0-i486-2_SBo.txz created.
Installing package avant-window-navigator-0.4.0.tar.gz...
ERROR: unknown package type: avant-window-navigator-0.4.0.tar.gz
ERROR: Can't open package file. (avant-window-navigator-0.4.0.tar.gz)
ERROR: Package installation failed!
spkg -u --reinstall --install-new avant-window-navigator-0.4.0.tar.gz Failed

Looks like it tried to install the wrong package, .tar.gz instead of the .tzx package. Don't know if this is a bug in slapt-src or the slackbuild, but since it did provide the path to the correct package ( /usr/src/slapt-src/desktop/avant-window-navigator/avant-window-navigator-0.4.0-i486-2_SBo.txz) , I manually installed it

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root[tmp]# cd /usr/src/slapt-src/desktop/avant-window-navigator/
root[avant-window-navigator]# ls

Once installed it looks like there is some configuration that needs to be done.

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rich[~]$ awn-applet 

** (awn-applet:18317): WARNING **: You need to provide path to desktop file

I don't use this so I'll leave this for you

[Outlaw]

thx .. i'll give it a try ..

yeah, that's the bad thing about slapt-src for us lazy slacker, dependancy hell

and even more so for debian familiar people like me