Tuesday, May 11, 2010

putting the physics back into kiba-dock

I've just installed kiba-dock using the instructions from my install of Hardy Heron. Unfortunately the sensational elastic snooker-ball effects weren't in evidence. To fix this, I'm going to follow the different install procedure I found at HOW TO: Install Kiba-Dock in the Ubuntu forums.

First of all, remove all existing kiba- and akamaru programs via synaptic (and delete their folders).

The next step is to install the build dependencies with this code:
* sudo aptitude remove automake1.4
* sudo apt-get install fakeroot automake1.9 build-essential libpango1.0-dev libgtk2.0-dev libgconf2-dev libglitz-glx1-dev librsvg2-dev libglade2-dev libxcomposite-dev subversion libtool libgtop2-dev python-gtk2-dev libgnome-menu-dev libgnomeui-dev libgnomevfs2-dev intltool libxml2-dev libglitz1-dev libcairo2 libdbus-1-dev libgtop2-7 libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomeui-0 librsvg2-2 python-feedparser libasound2-dev libsdl1.2-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev libgstreamer0.10-dev libgstreamer0.10-0 pidgin-dev libpurple-dev

Then make the directory into which kiba-dock will be installed:
* mkdir kiba-dock
* cd kiba-dock
* svn co https://kibadock.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/kibadock/trunk/akamaru/ akamaru
* svn co https://kibadock.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/kibadock/trunk/kiba-dock/ kiba-dock
* svn co https://kibadock.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/kibadock/trunk/kiba-plugins/ kiba-plugins
* svn co https://kibadock.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/kibadock/trunk/kiba-dbus-plugins/ kiba-dbus-plugins

For the physics, you need this code:
* svn update -r 602 *

Next enter the following code, typing each line at a time:
cd akamaru/
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr
sudo make install
cd ..
cd kiba-dock/
./autogen.sh
sudo make install
cd ..
cd kiba-plugins/
./autogen.sh
sudo make install
cd ..
cd kiba-dbus-plugins/
./autogen.sh
sudo make install
cd ..

Now all you have to do is type 'kiba-dock' into a terminal.

To start kiba-dock on login, go to System -> Preferences -> Sessions and click 'add new' under the start-up tab.
Name = Kiba-Dock
Command = kiba-dock

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