Halfbaked Ideas

I installed the software firewall GlowWorm on my G4 Powerbook running OS X 10.5.1. It hosed my system something fierce; don’t do it. Everything froze, and I had to cycle power to reset the machine. Subsequently the machine would not restart normally. I had to reboot in safe mode ( first time ever) and then [...]

I’ve been curious about the xmonad window manager, and decided to install it on Gutsy. Here’s the drill. First we install some required libraries, and Haskell (needed to compile xmonad).

sudo aptitude install libxext-dev libghc6-mtl-dev libxt-dev ghc6

Next download the source for xmonad and its prerequisites.

wget http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/mtl/1.0/mtl-1.0.tar.gz;
wget http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/X11-extras/0.4/X11-extras-0.4.tar.gz;
wget http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/X11/1.2.3/X11-1.2.3.tar.gz ;
wget http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/xmonad/0.4/xmonad-0.4.tar.gz ;

Now build the packages [...]