README.md

   1 # LXQT on Slackware
   2
   3 A collection of scripts to let you build [LXQT](https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt/) 0.15.0 on Slackware
   4
   5 ## Getting Started
   6
   7 If you want to build lxqt on Slackware these scripts will help you. I tried to make every step trivial but I can't be sure these instructions will work on every system. If you want to build different versions of LXQT those script will probably not work unless you modify them.
   8
   9 ### Prerequisites
  10
  11 In order to build LXQT on Slackware you'll need a few packages from [SlackBuilds.org](https://slackbuilds.org/), here's the list:
  12
  13 * openbox - [SBo](https://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.2/desktop/openbox/)
  14 * imlib2 (optional for openbox) - [SBo](https://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.2/libraries/imlib2/)
  15 * muParser - [SBo](https://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.2/libraries/muParser/)
  16 * libstatgrab - [SBo](https://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.2/libraries/libstatgrab/)
  17 * libconfig - [SBo](https://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.2/libraries/libconfig/)
  18
  19 Then I used AlienBob's ktown repository and installed his KDE5 packages, I've used the PAM enabled packages because I recently converted my slackware64-current to PAM, so if you decide to go the non-PAM way, I have no idea if you'll be able to build without the need for patches.
  20 The latest set of packages for KDE5 from AlienBob are here --> [ktown](https://alien.slackbook.org/ktown/current/)
  21
  22 ### Preparation
  23
  24 Before we get to start building we need to do a few things:
  25
  26 * Check prerequisite packages to ensure that we have all dependancies:
  27     * after running this script we'll have a log of all the installed dependancies as well as hints on where to find those packages we are missing.
  28     * a little notice regarding gtk+2 and gtk+3, even if those 2 packages are installed, my script doesn't see them, I think it has something to do with the way regex works and the fact that there's a + in the name, but I didn't investigate much. Bottom line, if you have them installed you're good to go!
  29
  30 ```
  31 sh CHECK_PREREQ.sh
  32 ```
  33
  34 * Download the source tree, this operation will also give us the version numbers for every package
  35     * this script will generate a versioning file containing all the version numbers for the packages.
  36
  37 ```
  38 sh DOWNLOAD.sh
  39 ```
  40
  41 ### Building and Installing
  42
  43 Now we have everything we need, with a little luck we don't need to do much except:
  44 ```
  45 sh build_all.sh
  46 ```
  47 and after a while we should see our packages inside the packages directory.
  48
  49 ## Tested on
  50
  51 I tested this bunch of scripts on a fresh install of slackware64-current updated on 24/04/2020, the system is running inside a chroot that I reinstall fresh everytime I have to build something.
  52 If your system is not so clean YMMV as you can imagine.
  53
  54 ## Contributing
  55
  56 Feel free to contribute however you feel like.
  57
  58 ## Authors
  59
  60 * **Danilo 'danix' Macrì** - *owner* - [danix.xyz](https://danix.xyz)
  61
  62 ## License
  63
  64 This project is licensed under the GPLv3 - see the [LICENSE.md](LICENSE.md) file for details
  65
  66 ## Acknowledgments
  67
  68 * Huge thans to [AlienBob](https://alien.slackbook.org/blog/) whose original lxqt slackbuilds I've used and modified to write this set
  69 * Of course all the people behind [LXQT](https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt/), what they do is amazing and I can't thank them enough.