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Installing Kiba-Dock on Ubuntu

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This guide is to help people install the latest version of kiba-dock on Ubuntu although it may be possible to adapt for other linux distributions.

This tutorial is for people who are comfortable using a terminal, if you don’t know what the terminal is then click here.

1. Install Dependencies
2. Make Directories
3. Downloading Kiba-Dock Source Files
4. Compile and Install the Source Files
5. Running
6. Adding to Start-Up
7. Un-Installing Kiba-Dock

Requirements:

• Compiz-Fusion must be running as kiba-dock requires a composite window manager to work properly.

1. 
   First we need to install any build dependencies (libraries that kiba-dock uses).
   • sudo aptitude remove automake1.4
   • sudo apt-get install fakeroot automake1.9 build-essential libpango1.0-dev libgtk2.0-dev libgconf2-dev libglitz-glx1-dev librsvg2-dev libglade2-dev libxcomposite-dev subversion libtool libgtop2-dev python-gtk2-dev libgnome-menu-dev libgnomeui-dev libgnomevfs2-dev intltool libxml2-dev libglitz1-dev libcairo2 libdbus-1-dev libgtop2-7 libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomeui-0 librsvg2-2 python-feedparser libasound2-dev libsdl1.2-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev libgstreamer0.10-dev libgstreamer0.10-0 pidgin-dev libpurple-dev
2. 
   Then make the directory to install kiba-dock into
   • mkdir kiba-dock
   • cd kiba-dock
3. 
   Next we need to download all the kiba-dock source files, so do the following
   • svn co https://kibadock.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/kibadock/trunk/akamaru/ akamaru
   • svn co https://kibadock.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/kibadock/trunk/kiba-dock/ kiba-dock
   • svn co https://kibadock.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/kibadock/trunk/kiba-plugins/ kiba-plugins
   • svn co https://kibadock.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/kibadock/trunk/kiba-dbus-plugins/ kiba-dbus-plugins
4. 
   Now we need to compile and install each of these sets of source files
   • cd akamaru/
     ./autogen.sh –prefix=/usr –exec-prefix=/usr
     sudo make install
     cd ..
   • cd kiba-dock/
     ./autogen.sh
     sudo make install
     cd ..
   • cd kiba-plugins/
     ./autogen.sh
     sudo make install
     cd ..
   • cd kiba-dbus-plugins/
     ./autogen.sh
     sudo make install
     cd ..
5. 
   Now it should all be ok to run
   • kiba-dock
6. 
   If you want kiba-dock to launch at start-up do the following:

   Go to System -> Preferences -> Sessions, then under the ‘Startup Programs’ tab select ‘Add’ and set the program up as follows.

   Name: Kiba-Dock

   Command: kiba-dock

   Comment: Kiba-Dock Dock Application

   

7. If you want to uninstall kiba-dock at any point do the following.
   • cd kiba-dock/kiba-dbus-plugins
     sudo make uninstall
     cd ..
   • cd kiba-dock/kiba-plugins
     sudo make uninstall
     cd ..
   • cd kiba-dock/kiba-dock
     sudo make uninstall
     cd ..
   • cd kiba-dock/akamaru
     sudo make uninstall