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+<h1>Howto build i3 on Ubuntu 9.04 for the amd64 architecture</h1>
+
+<p>
+ Due to Ubuntu 9.04’s lack of recent libxcb* packages, we cannot simply provide a debian
+ package. The following howto will explain how to build one for yourself after downloading
+ the necessary libxcb* packages from Debian.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+ Clone the i3 repository
+</p>
+
+<pre>
+$ git clone http://code.stapelberg.de/git/i3
+</pre>
+
+<p>
+ The Ubuntu repositories do not contain the required versions of several packages. Hence we need
+ to get them from Debian. Create a new directory for the .debs
+</p>
+
+<pre>
+$ mkdir deb && cd deb
+</pre>
+
+<p>
+ …and download the files
+</p>
+
+<pre>
+$ wget "http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xcb-util/libxcb-wm0-dev_0.3.3-2+b1_amd64.deb"
+$ wget "http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xcb-util/libxcb-aux0-dev_0.3.3-2+b1_amd64.deb"
+$ wget "http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xcb-util/libxcb-wm0_0.3.3-2+b1_amd64.deb"
+$ wget "http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xcb-util/libxcb-atom1-dev_0.3.3-2+b1_amd64.deb"
+$ wget "http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xcb-util/libxcb-event1-dev_0.3.3-2+b1_amd64.deb"
+$ wget "http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xcb-util/libxcb-property1-dev_0.3.3-2+b1_amd64.deb"
+$ wget "http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xcb-util/libxcb-icccm1-dev_0.3.3-2+b1_amd64.deb"
+$ wget "http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xcb-util/libxcb-wm0_0.3.3-2+b1_amd64.deb"
+$ wget "http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xcb-util/libxcb-atom1_0.3.3-2+b1_amd64.deb"
+$ wget "http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xcb-util/libxcb-icccm1_0.3.3-2+b1_amd64.deb"
+$ wget "http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xcb-util/libxcb-property1_0.3.3-2+b1_amd64.deb"
+$ wget "http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xcb-util/libxcb-event1_0.3.3-2+b1_amd64.deb"
+$ wget "http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xcb-util/libxcb-aux0_0.3.3-2+b1_amd64.deb"
+</pre>
+
+<p>
+ We install these:
+</p>
+
+<pre>
+$ sudo dpkg -i *.deb
+</pre>
+
+<p>
+ then change into the i3 directory and build the package:
+</p>
+
+<pre>
+$ cd ../i3
+$ dpkg-buildpackage
+</pre>
+
+<p>
+ and install it
+</p>
+
+<pre>
+$ sudo dpkg -i ../i3_1.0-1_amd64.deb
+</pre>
+
+<p>
+ What remains is to configure i3. Create the default directory for i3’s config and copy the default config to it
+</p>
+
+<pre>
+$ mkdir ~/.i3
+$ cp /etc/i3/config ~/.i3/config
+</pre>
+
+<p>
+Lastly, we need to set up i3 as default window manager. Create a new file ~/.xinitrc
+</p>
+
+<pre>
+$ vim ~/.xinitrc
+</pre>
+
+<p>
+ and enter the following lines:
+</p>
+
+<pre>
+#!/bin/sh
+xsetroot -solid black
+exec /usr/bin/i3
+</pre>
+
+<p>
+ Close vim and create a link to ~/.xinitrc and link it to ~/.Xsession:
+</p>
+
+<pre>
+$ ln -s ~/.xinitrc ~/.Xsession
+</pre>
+
+<p>
+ You are done. When you are in the login screen, select "Sessions", and switch to "Default" or "Xsession" to start i3.
+</p>
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