| How to compile and install compiz-fusion from git on Fedora 7 |
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In this guide I will describe you how to compile and install the latest compiz-fusion from git on Fedora 7. compiz-fusion is the cool cube desktop you see all over the Internet from Linux users. Fedora 7 has packages only for beryl which is considered obsolete. compiz-fusion is the merge of beryl and compiz!
** You should have in mind that software found in the git repositories is considered as alpha and therefore is not guarranted to be stable. So it's your own risk if anything goes wrong with your system (although usually rare).
** In the following commands I use sudo instead of becoming root with su -c. You can either configure sudo as described here or every time you see sudo command replace it with su -c 'command' . Let's move on to the installation procedure. If you have any beryl and emerald packages installed remove them first. sudo yum remove beryl* emerald* compiz-fusion 0.6 needs libx11 with xcb support. Therefore you have to install the following packages from the developement Fedora 8 repository. sudo yum --enablerepo=development install libxcb xcb-proto libxcb-devel sudo yum --enablerepo=development update libX11 Now you must have some packages installed. Open a terminal and type: sudo yum install git-core libtool python Pyrex Next create a directory in your home and change to it like this: mkdir ~/compiz cd ~/compiz Now it's time to clone compiz from the git repository: git clone git://git.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/app/compiz git clone git://anongit.compiz-fusion.org/fusion/libraries/bcop git clone git://anongit.compiz-fusion.org/fusion/compizconfig/ccsm git clone git://anongit.compiz-fusion.org/fusion/compizconfig/libcompizconfig git clone git://anongit.compiz-fusion.org/fusion/compizconfig/compizconfig-python git clone git://anongit.compiz-fusion.org/fusion/plugins-main git clone git://anongit.compiz-fusion.org/fusion/plugins-extra git clone git://anongit.compiz-fusion.org/fusion/plugins-unsupported git clone git://anongit.compiz-fusion.org/fusion/decorators/emerald git clone git://anongit.compiz-fusion.org/fusion/decorators/emerald-themes git clone git://anongit.compiz-fusion.org/users/crdlb/fusion-icon Next we must compile all the packages. Be carefull if you are using only gnome in the following commands you should use --disable-kde and if you are using only kde --disable-gnome --disable-metacity. If you want both kde and gnome support just don't disable anything. I will type the commands with gnome and metacity disabled, but you choose. cd ~/compiz/compiz ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local --disable-gnome --disable-metacity && make && sudo make install When the compile of compiz finishes type: export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/local/share/pkgconfig After that you must compile bcop, libcompizconfig, compizconfig-python, and plugins-main, in that order. cd ~/compiz/bcop ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local --disable-gnome --disable-metacity && make && sudo make install cd ~/compiz/libcompizconfig ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local --disable-gnome --disable-metacity && make && sudo make install cd ~/compiz/compizconfig-python ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local --disable-gnome --disable-metacity && make && sudo make install cd ~/compiz/plugins-main ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local --disable-gnome --disable-metacity && make && sudo make install Next we move on to the other packages: cd ~/compiz/plugins-extra ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local --disable-gnome --disable-metacity && make && sudo make install cd ~/compiz/plugins-unsupported ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local --disable-gnome --disable-metacity && make && sudo make install cd ~/compiz/emerald ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local --disable-gnome --disable-metacity && make && sudo make install cd ~/compiz/emerald-themes ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local --disable-gnome --disable-metacity && make && sudo make install ccsm and fusion-icon need a little different procedure: cd ~/compiz/ccsm make && sudo make install cd ~/compiz/fusion-icon make && sudo make install You also have to make some links in order fusion-icon and ccsm to work properly. sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/compizconfig* /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/ sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/ccm/ /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/ For nVidia cards you should add the following line in your xorg.conf in the Screen Section. Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true" So open xorg.conf and paste the labove line. sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.old sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf Save (ctrl+o) and exit (ctrl+x). At last you are ready to run compiz-fusion! You can either type: fusion-icon & or you can launch it from the start menu as 'Compiz Fusion Icon'. At any time you can update any package to the latest version. You check for newer versions here. For example if you want to update emerald type: cd ~/compiz/emerald git pull ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local --disable-gnome --disable-metacity && make && sudo make install **Note: Super key If you use KDE and Super key (the button with the windows flag on it) isn't recongnized you must edit your xorg.conf to make it work. sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf and add this line in the InputDevice Section Option "XkbOptions" "altwin:super_win" Restart X by hiting ctrl+alt+backspace and try again the super key. Did you enjoy this article? Please share it!
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:? 2.6.22.9-91.fc7 fglrx 8.40 When I run: ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local --disable-gnome --disable-metacity I get this output:: " autoreconf: Entering directory `.' autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext autoreconf: running: aclocal configure.ac:197: warning: macro `AM_GCONF_SOURCE_2' not found in library autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing autoreconf: running: libtoolize --copy libtoolize: `config.guess' exists: use `--force' to overwrite libtoolize: `config.sub' exists: use `--force' to overwrite libtoolize: `ltmain.sh' exists: use `--force' to overwrite configure.ac:197: warning: macro `AM_GCONF_SOURCE_2' not found in library autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoheader autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy --no-force kde/window-decorator/Makefile.am:32: `%'-style pattern rules are a GNU make extension kde/window-decorator/Makefile.am:35: `%'-style pattern rules are a GNU make extension kde/window-decorator/Makefile.am:38: `%'-style pattern rules are a GNU make extension metadata/Makefile.am:77: GCONF_SCHEMAS_INSTALL does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL metadata/Makefile.am:40: patsubst %.xml.in,compiz-%.schemas,$(xml_in_files: non-POSIX variable name metadata/Makefile.am:40: (probably a GNU make extension) metadata/Makefile.am:43: `%'-style pattern rules are a GNU make extension metadata/Makefile.am:53: patsubst %.xml.in,compiz-%.kcfg,$(xml_in_files: non-POSIX variable name metadata/Makefile.am:53: (probably a GNU make extension) metadata/Makefile.am:57: `%'-style pattern rules are a GNU make extension metadata/Makefile.am:58: subst compiz-,,$*: non-POSIX variable name metadata/Makefile.am:58: (probably a GNU make extension) autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1 " Seen this before? Thanks, Kasp |
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ok, little more info.. I installed GConf2-devel, and now get the error: autoreconf: Entering directory `.' autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext autoreconf: running: aclocal autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing autoreconf: running: libtoolize --copy libtoolize: `config.guess' exists: use `--force' to overwrite libtoolize: `config.sub' exists: use `--force' to overwrite libtoolize: `ltmain.sh' exists: use `--force' to overwrite autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf configure.ac:23: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_INTLTOOL If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow. See the Autoconf documentation. autoreconf: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1 |
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ok.... got past that... installed intltool.... new errors...: (sorry for all the posts, delete them if u want i guess, just trying to figure this out  checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes checking for COMPIZ... configure: error: Package requirements (x11-xcb xcomposite xfixes xdamage xrandr xinerama ice sm libxml-2.0 libxslt libstartup-notification-1.0 >= 0.7) were not met: No package 'libstartup-notification-1.0' found Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you installed software in a non-standard prefix. Alternatively, you may set the environment variables COMPIZ_CFLAGS and COMPIZ_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config. See the pkg-config man page for more details. |
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The following line describes what packages you are missing. checking for COMPIZ... configure: error: Package requirements (x11-xcb xcomposite xfixes xdamage xrandr xinerama ice sm libxml-2.0 libxslt libstartup-notification-1.0 >= 0.7) were not met: Try installing them with the following commands as root. yum --enablerepo=development install libxcb xcb-proto libxcb-devel yum --enablerepo=development update libX11 yum install libXcomposite libXcomposite-devel libXfixes libXfixes-devel libXdamage libXdamage-devel libXrandr libXrandr-devel libXinerama libXinerama-devel libICE libICE-devel libSM libSM-devel libxml libxml2 libxslt libxslt-devel startup-notification startup-notification-devel I see that you use fglrx 8.40. The latest version of fglrx 8.42 with 3d support is in the freshrpms development repository. You might wait a while for it to become stable and try it. But if you want, you can try it from the testing repo. |
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everything was installed (according to yum) except, libSM libSM-devel libxml libxml2 libxslt libxslt-devel. So i installed those packages. I have the startup-notification-0.9-3.fc8 installed... it's askling for 1.0? but I am still getting the same error as above... :? yea I am waiting for the livna to be updated for 8.42, I tried building the packages using the .run from ati, but it doesn't agree with me either  8.40 is stable for me |
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It's not asking for startup-notifiation 1.0 libstartup-notification-1.0 is part of startup-notification-devel-0.9-1.fc7 [axel@aeris ~]$ rpm -qf /usr/lib/libstartup-notification-1.so startup-notification-devel-0.9-1.fc7 Paste again the error you get. |
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checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes checking for COMPIZ... configure: error: Package requirements (x11-xcb xcomposite xfixes xdamage xrandr xinerama ice sm libxml-2.0 libxslt libstartup-notification-1.0 >= 0.7) were not met: No package 'libstartup-notification-1.0' found Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you installed software in a non-standard prefix. Alternatively, you may set the environment variables COMPIZ_CFLAGS and COMPIZ_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config. See the pkg-config man page for more details. |
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when i do the rpm -qf, i get: rpm -qf /usr/lib/libstartup-notification-1.so error: file /usr/lib/libstartup-notification-1.so: No such file or directory |
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kasperpa
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found it here (man, sorry for flooding the comments here) [root@turion /]# find |grep libstartup-notification-1 ./usr/lib/libstartup-notification-1.so.0 ./usr/lib/libstartup-notification-1.so.0.0.0 ./usr/lib64/libstartup-notification-1.so.0 ./usr/lib64/libstartup-notification-1.so.0.0.0 |
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Are you sure you installed all the packages I told you befora? I see that you miss many packages. As root run yum install startup-notification startup-notification-devel yum --enablerepo=development install libxcb xcb-proto libxcb-devel yum --enablerepo=development update libX11 yum install libXcomposite libXcomposite-devel yum install libXfixes libXfixes-devel yum install libXdamage libXdamage-devel yum install libXrandr libXrandr-devel yum install libXinerama libXinerama-devel yum install libICE libICE-devel yum install libSM libSM-devel yum install libxml libxml2 yum install libxslt libxslt-devel |
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| Btw since you are not using 8.42 driver you can't run compiz-fusion without xgl. Take a look at this thread. It might help you. I don't own an ATi card to test it myself. | |
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ok, startup-notification-devel wasn't installed, installed it and everything goes up until the make install: at the end of make install: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldbus-qt-1 collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [libkconfig.la] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/compiz/compiz/plugins' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/compiz/compiz' make: *** [all] Error 2 yea got the .5.2 compiz-fusion running fine, up until i installed afew fc8' parts (the sudo yum --enablerepo=development install libxcb xcb-proto libxcb-devel sudo yum --enablerepo=development update libX11) for whatever reason, that slows down my compiz-fusion big time, lol .. wanted to tryt eh new version... any ideas on why the make install failed, i may just wait for the fc8 release, and upgrade fully |
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[axel@aeris ~]$ rpm -qf /usr/lib/libdbus-qt-1.so dbus-qt-devel-0.70-1.fc7 Install this package as well. F8 is a few days far.  |
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alright! everything went smoothly up until the emerald package.. btw, thank you for helping me on this!!! ok, error is: checking for EMERALD... configure: error: Package requirements ( xrender >= 0.8.4 gtk+-2.0 >= 2.8.0 libwnck-1.0 libdecoration pangocairo) were not met: No package 'gtk+-2.0' found No package 'libwnck-1.0' found No package 'pangocairo' found Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you installed software in a non-standard prefix. Alternatively, you may set the environment variables EMERALD_CFLAGS and EMERALD_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config. See the pkg-config man page for more details. and i rpm -qa'd: (i have) gtk+-1.2.10-57.fc7 libwnck-2.18.3-1.fc7 don't have pangocairo, yum couldnt find it either.. but i do have: cairo-1.4.10-1.fc7 |
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You must have devel packages as well. You can try yumex ( yum install yumex ). It's a graphical interface for yum that will make it easier for you to resolve the dependencies. |
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you've got to hat me by now.... sorry yea I use yumex and yum, i stillfind myself going back to plain ol yum tho for some reason make install of emerald fails at: /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libwnck-1.so when searching for -lwnck-1 /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so when searching for -lgtk-x11-2.0 /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so when searching for -lgtk-x11-2.0 /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgtk-x11-2.0 collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [libemeraldengine.la] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/compiz/emerald/libengine' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/compiz/emerald' make: *** [all] Error 2 |
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Hi, I compiled all of things without errors I only get error for ln -s /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/ccm/ /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/ ln: creating symbolic link `/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/ccm': File exists and when I run fusion-icon via terminal I get File "/usr/bin/fusion-icon", line 57, in from FusionIcon.interface import choose_interface File "usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/FusionIcon/interface.py", line 22, in File "usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/FusionIcon/util.py", line 23, in ImportError: No module named compizconfig Also from start menu same compizconfig settings manager dont work too.. Where is the prblem ? |
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Hi, I compiled all of things without errors I only get error for ln -s /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/ccm/ /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/ ln: creating symbolic link `/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/ccm': File exists and when I run fusion-icon via terminal I get File "/usr/bin/fusion-icon", line 57, in from FusionIcon.interface import choose_interface File "usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/FusionIcon/interface.py", line 22, in File "usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/FusionIcon/util.py", line 23, in ImportError: No module named compizconfig Also from start menu same compizconfig settings manager dont work too.. Where is the prblem ? |
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