Re: blackbox: where is bbkeys package?

[August Karlstrom <fusionfile@gmail.com>]

On 2015-05-09 15:30, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> I installed blackbox in order to choose it as my window manager, but read that,
> to use keystrokes in it, the bbkeys package is needed.  But it seems to be
> absent from Debian Stable, whereas in Sid there is but aptitude won't install
> it or it is already there but doesn't run from command line.

For some reason it was removed from the Debian repositories some 
releases ago. I use the script below.

-- August


#!/bin/sh

set -e

#bbkeys is not in the software repositories so we compile if from source 
instead

#install dependencies
apt-get install g++ libbt-dev libx11-dev libxext-dev make

#download and extract
cd /usr/local/src
wget 
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/bbkeys/bbkeys/0.9.1/bbkeys-0.9.1.tar.gz
tar xf bbkeys-0.9.1.tar.gz

#compile and install
cd /usr/local/src/bbkeys-0.9.1
./configure
make
make install