IntroductionTint2 is very easy to install. And for Ubuntu and Debian users, prebuilt binaries are avaiable. Install ManuallyDependencies
Tint2 depends on cairo, pango, glib2, imlib2, xinerama and libx11.
On Ubuntu, use this command :
sudo aptitude install libcairo2-dev libpango1.0-dev libglib2.0-dev libimlib2-dev libxinerama-dev libx11-dev
On debian, use this command:
apt-get install libcairo2-dev libpango1.0-dev libglib2.0-dev libimlib2-dev libxinerama-dev libx11-dev On gentoo, use this command:
emerge -av cairo pango glib:2 imlib2 libXinerama libX11 After these dependencies have been installed, you download the latest release and unpack the archive.
Getting the sources
wget 'http://tint2.googlecode.com/files/tint2-<LATEST-RELEASE>.tar.gz'
tar xvf tint2-<LATEST-RELEASE>.tar.gz You start terminal in tint2 directory.
Building
cd tint2-<LATEST-RELEASE>
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc
make NOTE: see ./configure --help for further informations.
Install
On Ubuntu,
sudo make install
On other system,
su
make install If no errors ensure, HURRAY! , tint2 has been installed
Tint2 Pre-Built binariesPlease note that, for now, since tint2 is still under development, there might be a few bugs.
For Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid)
Tint2 .deb files are built and can be found here.
Add these to your sources.list
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/killeroid/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/killeroid/ppa/ubuntu intrepid mainand then run this command in terminal to import the repositories GPG key:
sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com C4412AEB3B1D5F58E8149B7DD9DAAF25C26CCF8E
For Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty)
Add these to your sources.list
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/killeroid/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/killeroid/ppa/ubuntu jaunty mainand then run this command in terminal to import the repositories GPG key:
sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com C4412AEB3B1D5F58E8149B7DD9DAAF25C26CCF8E
For Gentoo
Simply run:
emerge -av tint2
Running tint2 Autorun tint2 at startup
- Openbox3 users : Add tint2 & in Openbox config file $HOME/.config/openbox/autostart.sh
- Ubuntu users : Go to System > Preferences > Sessions . Click on add.
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For Gentoo
tint2 is not presently in the main tree (or any 3rd party overlay - yet) http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=225733 is the bugtracker for tint2 in portage an ebuild for tint2-0.6 as well as a live tint2-9999 ebuild are present here
Getting errors with Jaunty importing the repositories GPG key:
"gpg: requesting key C26CCF8E from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com gpgkeys: HTTP fetch error 7: couldn't connect to host gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found. gpg: Total number processed: 0"
But hosts resolves from term
On Arch Linux you can easily install with sudo pacman -S tint2