Awesome: someone help build awesome

[batmanm0b1E]

I extracted the git file like said

Then run make in folder

The switched to build folder like said. Run cmake but i get this

Usage

cmake [options]
cmake [options]

Specify a source directory to (re-)generate a build system for it in the
current working directory. Specify an existing build directory to
re-generate its build system.

Run 'cmake --help' for more information.

Somebody help please Thank you

[Elv13]

Short answer: use make instead, we have a wrapper for this.

Long answer:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr
make -j2 package # (or `make -j2 install` if you are not on a .deb or .rpm based distribution)

But why do you need to compile Awesome for source. Does your distribution provides packages that are too old?

[batmanm0b1E]

um yeah that's what i said. But its saying here @Elv13 need the git version i think

I'm trying to install hes config stuff but haven a difficult time
https://github.com/actionless/awesome_config

[Elv13]

@actionless Does your config really requires Awesome-git?

[actionless]

actually i wrote that readme in 3.5 times or so, i'll update it

[batmanm0b1E]

SO i can just install 4.2 awesome in the aur @actionless that my understanding?

[actionless]

just community/awesome 4.2-1 should be fine if you're on arch