Thanks Andre. I'm up and running :) On Fri, 2014-08-08 at 21:27 +0200, Andre Klärner wrote: > Hi Mike, > > you can add the repositories for jessie and experimental temporarily > and install the experimental version of awesome, which turns out to be > 3.5.5. I have been using this very exact package and it works > perfectly.
Excellent idea. > Just pay a bit of attention to not upgrade your whole system > and it should turn out very well. Except it didn't. I managed to break a couple of packages. Including postgresql, which was a show-stopper. Probably my fault misusing aptitude. However, I've moved totally to 'jessie'. I was changing o/s anyway, so not much lost and I'm now running happily. For the record (as a possible help to others) I had '/usr/local/share ...' hard coded in my config. That needs to be '/usr/share/... ', or possibly some reference to the themes location. Whatever, I'm happy now. And the whole exercise has been _much_ better than recompiling stuff. > Afterwards you can comment out the > repos back again. > > Regards, > > Andre > > On August 8, 2014 6:22:15 PM CEST, Mike <[email protected]> wrote: > >I have Debian Wheezy system which supports 3.4 in the package > >repository. I have a configuration for 3.5 that I have been using > >perfectly happily on my previous, now broken, Ubuntu system. At first > >blush it seems I have to build 3.5 from source, but it complains that > >the lgi module is missing (a new run-time dependency). > > > >The Wheezy package is for lgi-0.6.1, which is no good for 3.5.2. > > > >Using luarocks I can install lgi 0.8, but it seems it is not > >recognised. > >The test command "lua -e 'lgi = require("lgi") ... fails to recognise > >it. > > > >One issue may come from the fact that the Wheezy install has ended up > >with both lua5.1 _and_ lua5.2. The default is to run 5.2 but as far as > >I can see install of lua-lgi is linked to 5.1. > > > >Two questions: > > > >1. Has anyone got a reasonable suggestion for what to do next? > > > >2. Is this a reasonable question for this list (or, indeed, who should > >I > >ask)? > > > >Cheers > > > >Mike S. > > -- > Andre Klärner > Cheers Mike S. -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
