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  20 <h1>Howto build i3 on Ubuntu 9.04 for the amd64 architecture</h1>
  21
  22 <p>
  23   Due to Ubuntu 9.04’s lack of recent libxcb* packages, we cannot simply provide a debian
  24   package. The following howto will explain how to build one for yourself after downloading
  25   the necessary libxcb* packages from Debian.
  26 </p>
  27
  28 <p>
  29   Clone the i3 repository
  30 </p>
  31
  32 <pre>
  33 $ git clone http://code.stapelberg.de/git/i3
  34 </pre>
  35
  36 <p>
  37   The Ubuntu repositories do not contain the required versions of several packages. Hence we need
  38   to get them from Debian. Create a new directory for the .debs
  39 </p>
  40
  41 <pre>
  42 $ mkdir deb &amp;&amp; cd deb
  43 </pre>
  44
  45 <p>
  46   …and download the files
  47 </p>
  48
  49 <pre>
  50 $ wget "http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libx/libx11/libx11-dev_1.2.1-1_amd64.deb"
  51 $ wget "http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xcb-util/libxcb-aux0-dev_0.3.4-1_amd64.deb"
  52 $ wget "http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xcb-util/libxcb-keysyms1-dev_0.3.4-1_amd64.deb"
  53 $ wget "http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libx/libxcb/libxcb-xinerama0-dev_1.2-1_amd64.deb"
  54 $ wget "http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xcb-util/libxcb-event1-dev_0.3.4-1_amd64.deb"
  55 $ wget "http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xcb-util/libxcb-property1-dev_0.3.4-1_amd64.deb"
  56 $ wget "http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xcb-util/libxcb-atom1-dev_0.3.4-1_amd64.deb"
  57 $ wget "http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xcb-util/libxcb-icccm1-dev_0.3.4-1_amd64.deb"
  58 $ wget "http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/asciidoc/asciidoc_8.4.4-1_all.deb"
  59 $ wget "http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libx/libxcb/libxcb1-dev_1.2-1_amd64.deb"
  60 $ wget "http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libx/libxdmcp/libxdmcp-dev_1.0.2-3_amd64.deb"
  61 $ wget "http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/x11proto-core/x11proto-core-dev_7.0.15-1_all.deb"
  62 $ wget "http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libp/libpthread-stubs/libpthread-stubs0-dev_0.1-2_amd64.deb"
  63 $ wget "http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libp/libpthread-stubs/libpthread-stubs0_0.1-2_amd64.deb"
  64 $ wget "http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libx/libxau/libxau-dev_1.0.4-2_amd64.deb"
  65 $ wget "http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libx/libxau/libxau6_1.0.4-2_amd64.deb"
  66 $ wget "http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libx/libxdmcp/libxdmcp-dev_1.0.2-3_amd64.deb"
  67 $ wget "http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libx/libx11/libx11-6_1.2.1-1_amd64.deb"
  68 $ wget "http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/x11proto-input/x11proto-input-dev_1.5.0-2_all.deb"
  69 $ wget "http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/x11proto-kb/x11proto-kb-dev_1.0.3-3_all.deb"
  70 $ wget "http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xtrans/xtrans-dev_1.2.3-3_all.deb"
  71 $ wget "http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xcb-util/libxcb-atom1_0.3.4-1_amd64.deb"
  72 $ wget "http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xcb-util/libxcb-aux0_0.3.4-1_amd64.deb"
  73 $ wget "http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xcb-util/libxcb-event1_0.3.4-1_amd64.deb"
  74 $ wget "http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xcb-util/libxcb-icccm1_0.3.4-1_amd64.deb"
  75 $ wget "http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xcb-util/libxcb-property1_0.3.4-1_amd64.deb"
  76 $ wget "http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xcb-util/libxcb-keysyms1_0.3.4-1_amd64.deb"
  77 $ wget "http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libx/libxcb/libxcb-xinerama0_1.2-1_amd64.deb"
  78 </pre>
  79
  80 <p>
  81   We install these:
  82 </p>
  83
  84 <pre>
  85 $ sudo dpkg -i *.deb
  86 </pre>
  87
  88 <p>
  89   then change into the i3 directory and build the package:
  90 </p>
  91
  92 <pre>
  93 $ cd ../i3
  94 $ dpkg-buildpackage
  95 </pre>
  96
  97 <p>
  98   and install it
  99 </p>
 100
 101 <pre>
 102 $ sudo dpkg -i ../i3-wm_1.0-1_amd64.deb
 103 $ sudo dpkg -i ../i3_1.0-1_amd64.deb
 104 </pre>
 105
 106 <p>
 107   What remains is to configure i3. Create the default directory for i3’s config and copy the default config to it
 108 </p>
 109
 110 <pre>
 111 $ mkdir ~/.i3
 112 $ cp /etc/i3/config ~/.i3/config
 113 </pre>
 114
 115 <p>
 116 Lastly, we need to set up i3 as default window manager. Create a new file ~/.xinitrc
 117 </p>
 118
 119 <pre>
 120 $ vim ~/.xinitrc
 121 </pre>
 122
 123 <p>
 124   and enter the following lines:
 125 </p>
 126
 127 <pre>
 128 #!/bin/sh
 129 xsetroot -solid black
 130 exec /usr/bin/i3
 131 </pre>
 132
 133 <p>
 134   Close vim and create a link to ~/.xinitrc and link it to ~/.Xsession:
 135 </p>
 136
 137 <pre>
 138 $ ln -s ~/.xinitrc ~/.Xsession
 139 </pre>
 140
 141 <p>
 142   You are done. When you are in the login screen, select "Sessions", and switch to "Default" or "Xsession" to start i3.
 143 </p>