Has anyone been able to successfully install or build i3-4.22 ?
I tried several times. There is this: GitHub - QubesOS/qubes-desktop-linux-i3: qubes rpm for i3
Last time I checked it still was 4.21 and a pull request for 4.22 from Jan 23. It looks like it got merged on April 10th. But I did not try yet to install this. Let me know if you succeed. I didn’t.
You need to build it using qubes-builder.
Here’s how to do it:
- Clone the qubes-builder repo to a qube of your choice (based on fedora, in
/home/user/
):git clone https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-builder
- Install needed dependencies:
sudo dnf install git createrepo rpm-build rpm-sign debootstrap devscripts dpkg-dev make python3-sh rpmdevtools rpm-sign dialog perl-open python3-pyyaml perl-Digest-MD5 perl-Digest-SHA systemd-container
- Create a
builder.conf
file with this content inside:RELEASE := 4.1 include example-configs/qubes-os-r$(RELEASE).conf # adjust/uncomment these to build from different branches/repos # master branch builds kernel-latest pkgs, # bleeding edge and avoids wrecking your stable kernels BRANCH_desktop_linux_i3 = main # adjust these for building different pkgs/targets # you have to manually resolve the dependencies! COMPONENTS = desktop-linux-i3 desktop-linux-i3-settings-qubes builder-rpm DISTS_VM = "" # mostly needed for kernel builds USE_QUBES_REPO_VERSION = $(RELEASE)
- Get sources:
make get-sources
- Remount filesystem
make remount
- Build desktop-linux-i3 and desktop-linux-i3-settings-qubes:
make desktop-linux-i3 desktop-linux-i3-settings-qubes
- Send the files to dom0 (execute in a dom0 terminal):
qvm-run --pass-io VMNAME 'cat /home/user/qubes-builder/qubes-src/desktop-linux-i3/pkgs/dom0-fc32/x86_64/i3-4.22-1.fc32.x86_64.rpm' > i3-4.22-1.fc32.x86_64.rpm qvm-run --pass-io VMNAME 'cat /home/user/qubes-builder/qubes-src/desktop-linux-i3-settings-qubes/pkgs/dom0-fc32/x86_64/i3-settings-qubes-1.10-1.fc32.x86_64.rpm' > i3-settings-qubes-1.10-1.fc32.x86_64.rpm
- Install in dom0:
sudo dnf install i3-4.22-1.fc32.x86_64.rpm i3-settings-qubes-1.10-1.fc32.x86_64.rpm
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Well if you know, you know. That worked like a charm. Thanks again for wrapping this up.
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