Archive for July, 2007

Compiz Fusion Debian Packages

As you may already know, compiz and beryl are merged and got a new name compiz fusion.

If you’re using debian and wanna give compiz fusion a try, shame’s repository may be a great place to start. Just append this line to the /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/shames/debian-sid/desktopfx/unstable/ ./

Either the metapackage compiz-fusion-gnome or compiz-fusion-kde is probably what you want to install. Run fusion-manager or fusion-icon to start using compiz fusion.

If you want to build these packages on your own, you may try this git repository. It provides debian directories to build compiz fusion packages. Don’t know how to use it? A simple check-out-and-run wrapper is also provided.

git-clone git://anongit.opencompositing.org/users/3v1n0/compiz-fusion-debian-builder compiz-fusion-git
cd compiz-fusion-git
./makefusiondebs

Much thanks to shame and TreviƱo!

References: “Is there a debian package?“, “Build Debian Packages of Compiz Fusion GIT w/ MakeFusionDebs

UPDATE(8/16): The URLs of the references above are changed.

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