Tuesday, 11 November 2014

How to install xmonad on a Raspberry Pi with Arch Linux ARM (Quickly)


I got a Raspberry Pi and loved it, but i still could not figure out a quick and easy way to properly install Xmonad on Arch Linux ARM, until now. No, this does not require to cross compile xmonad on another computer, installing unneeded software and wasting storage space and time. Unfortunately, I was too lazy to install Xorg in the code below so install it manually yourself first.
So here is how i did it.

Copy the code below into your terminal.

pacman -S gmp libxinerama packer base-devel
packer -S dpkg
wget http://archive.raspbian.org/raspbian/pool/main/x/xmonad/xmonad_0.11-9_armhf.deb
dpkg --force-depends -i xmonad_0.11-9_armhf.deb
rm xmonad_0.11-9_armhf.deb

This should work. That is all. Have Fun.

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