On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 12:53:08PM EST, julien steinhauser wrote:
Hello,
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:33:16AM -0500, Chris Jones wrote:
When you apt-get xmonad, regardless of the version, debian ends up installing what looks like close to a hundred packages. Meaning that I was concerned that trying to install manually might have landed me in dependency hell. I don't think this would have been the case, though: despite the large number of packages, and size thereof.. the actual dependency is quite trivial: you just need a working Haskell environment in order to configure xmonad. Doesn't look like a case of fifteen layers of libraries, with half of them dummy packages to resolve compatiblity issues.
Your debian seems not like mine, if I remember well I just needed those packages to get a XMonad with full extensions :
They're all different :-) I assume that the difference is that I have a very minimal system that was installed one package at a time, not via the gnome-desktop, or KDE-desktop, or whatever they call these things in the installer, and that a lot of other stuff that was already installed on your system -- and that I had managed so far not to install on mine -- eventually got pulled in.. oh, well..
$ apt-get source xmonad xmonad-contrib
# aptitude install ghc6 libghc6-mtl-dev libghc6-utf-8-string-dev libghc6-x11-dev libghc6-x11-xft-dev
Makes sense to me. Unfortunately, I was doing something else at the time the install was running and I didn't really bother making even a mental note of what these extra packages were. I'm sure there's a way I could find out, this is debian after all, probably some log or other in /var/cache/apt .. but since all went well and since it's not working on the lenny system anyway, I think I'll just do an apt-get remove --purge followed by an autoremove and focus on the squeeze system for now.
One quick question, I see a bunch of screenshots on the xmonad wiki and some look pretty much like what I'm trying to end up with, but the configuration files or scripts appear not to have been made available.
This is surely what you look for :
Precisely what I was looking for.. not sure how I missed it. Thank you for your comments. CJ