Help:Installing

Revision as of 16:18, 21 May 2007

Dependencies

Compiling Openbox should be a relatively painless experience. You will need the following packages:

• C compiler (such as GCC)
• Libc library and headers (development package)
• Xlib library and headers (development package)
• Glib-2 library and headers (development package)
• LibXML-2 library and headers (development package)
• Pango library and headers (development package)
• Startup-notification library and headers (development package) - optional but recommended
• XCursor library and headers (development package) - optional but recommended
• Pkg-config

These should all be available through your distribution.

Dependencies in Ubuntu and Debian

In Ubuntu and Debian, install the following packages:

• build-essential
• pkg-config
• libpango1.0-dev
• libglib2.0-dev
• libxml2-dev
• libxcursor-dev
• libstartup-notification0-dev
• xlibs-dev
• cvs (required for bootstrap if you use svn)

Building and installing the program

Once you have the above dependancies installed, you are ready to build Openbox. Untar the Openbox archive and from inside the source tree, run:

  % ./configure
    ...configure detects the build evironment...
  % make
    ...openbox builds...
  % sudo make install
    ...openbox installs...

If the configure command fails and the reason is not obvious, you should look in the generated config.log file to discover the cause of the problem.