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Ain’t technology cool
I am writing this while waiting for my daughter’s ballet class to end. The dance studio graciously provides wireless internet access. I have an ssh session to a remote machine behind a firewall which exposes only port 22. From there I ssh to another machine, a virtual one, on which I am installing xmonad 0.5. [...]
installing xmonad on Ubuntu Gutsy
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 [...]
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