Howto: Install and use Luminocity (eye candy)

**vtechstu** · December 10th, 2005

Ok, so I installed autoconf2.13 or something like that, and it switched to a different error when i ran the last command:

Code:

chase@ubuntu:~$ ~/bin/jhbuild -f ~/luminocity/jhbuildrc-luminocity build xserver luminocity
*** Checking out XExtensions *** [1/24]

cvs -z3 -q -d :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.freedesktop.org:/cvs/xlibs update -dP -A .
*** Configuring XExtensions *** [1/24]

./autogen.sh --prefix /home/chase/luminocity/opt/luminocity  --enable-maintainer-mode --disable-static
Can't exec "aclocal": No such file or directory at /usr/bin/autoreconf2.50 line 176.
Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at /usr/bin/autoreconf2.50 line 176.
Can't exec "automake": No such file or directory at /usr/bin/autoreconf2.50 line 177.
Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at /usr/bin/autoreconf2.50 line 177.
autoreconf2.50: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf2.50: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf2.50: running: aclocal  --output=aclocal.m4t
Can't exec "aclocal": No such file or directory at /usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm line 288.
autoreconf2.50: failed to run aclocal: No such file or directory
*** error during stage configure of XExtensions: could not configure module *** [1/24]


  [1] rerun stage configure
  [2] ignore error and continue to build
  [3] give up on module
  [4] start shell
  [5] go to stage force_checkout
choice:

**joce** · December 16th, 2005

hello,
i have a problem about Luminocity.
it is an error.
who can teach me how to fix it?

Code:

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checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for DEP... configure: error: luminocity dependencies not satisfied

Now type 'make' to compile luminocity.
*** Building luminocity *** [24/24]

make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
*** error during stage build of luminocity: could not build module *** [24/24]


  [1] rerun stage build
  [2] ignore error and continue to install
  [3] give up on module
  [4] start shell
  [5] go to stage force_checkout
  [6] go to stage configure
choice:

thank you.

**LifeIsAFractal** · January 4th, 2006

Originally Posted by ouphe

very, very ugly:

go here:
http://xorg.freedesktop.org/X11R7.0-RC0/proto/

get all .tar.gz's for: randrproto renderproto fixesproto damageproto xextproto compositeproto resourceproto recordproto

unpack them (I opened the files from within Firefox, created a folder on my desktop and extracted them in that folder, the archive will create a new folder)

when done, open every folder and doubleclick "autogen.sh", select "run in terminal" for each one

when done, open a terminal and do:
sudo su -

move into every folder and do:
cp *.pc /usr/lib/pkgconfig

this will copy the necessary files to the correct folder

now, either resume the compile process or restart it

and results in:
*** success *** [24/24]

and works afterwards. runs fine on a r9500pro (latest fglrx). it's sweeeeeet!

I've never been a fan of the ugly solution, thats why I use ubuntu. All of the missing files are availbe in the ubuntu repositories.

the needed files are:
randrproto renderproto fixesproto damageproto xextproto compositeproto resourceproto recordproto

the packages are named: x11-(name of proto)-dev

install the missing packages and continue your build to success.

cheers to my first post too

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**Iandefor** · February 4th, 2006

Interesting. It looks okay. Runs fine on an AMD Sempron 64 2600+ that's been overclocked to about 1.8 ghz and a GeForce 6100. I really like some of the effects, but it's overdone in Luminocity.