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HOWTO: Install Compiz-fusion from git

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Compiz Fusion is going places since its existance. Offlate it has become awesome.

Here is a tutorial to compile the latest compiz from git.

First, see here if it is safe to run compiz-git.

Getting Git

sudo apt-get install git git-core

Getting Compiz-git

wget http://jobcalls.in/adi/compiz-git.tar.gz

tar xzf compiz-git.tar.gz

chmod -R 777 compiz-git

You should now have a directory called compiz-git in your home-directory

Install compiz from git

cd compiz-git

./compiz-git install

Update compiz from git

cd compiz-git

./compiz-git update

Running compiz-fusion

fusion-icon
OR Run Compiz Fusion Icon (in your menu)

Uninstall compiz from git (which you would never do :) )

cd compiz-git

./compiz-git uninstall

cd ..

rm -r compiz-git

New feature

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Cube Deformation

What do you get after doing all these ??

Sphere

cylinder

cylinder

and lots more. Will update soon.

Enjoy Compiz. Special thanks to Martijn Bastiaan.

Written by Aditya Kavoor

May 11, 2008 at 7:33 am

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  1. [...] He seguido basicamente las instrucciones que he encontrado en este enlace. [...]

  2. English Translation of the above comment : I basically followed the instructions I found at this link.

    kavoor

    May 12, 2008 at 6:46 pm

  3. thansk, now I know how to do so

    free image hosting

    May 23, 2008 at 3:03 pm

  4. dude

    June 2, 2008 at 5:00 am

  5. I just done as you had written, but I don’t have ANY new plugins from standard ubuntu 8.04 :(
    there were no error whatsoever

    lobak

    June 13, 2008 at 3:56 am

  6. ok, my fault. it didn’t reset shell just turn on compiz / turn off (several times) but after reset it works :D

    lobak

    June 13, 2008 at 4:33 am

  7. Ok, but do I need to uninstall the regular compiz before I install compiz from git?

    slavco

    June 21, 2008 at 2:29 pm

  8. hi there,

    great How To, and i’d followed each step, but it seems that i’m missing cube reflection and deformation plugin. just wondering if anyone else have experienced the same problem?

    NukieNuggz

    June 22, 2008 at 6:01 am

  9. @ slavco

    Its not a compulsion. If you uninstall always safe. There would be no mix and match.

    Aditya Kavoor

    June 22, 2008 at 6:45 am

  10. @ NukieNuggz

    The system needs a restart. Run ccsm after a restart.

    Aditya Kavoor

    June 22, 2008 at 6:47 am

  11. @ Aditya Kavoor

    I did restart after installation, and i did run ccsm after startup, and still i see no option for cube reflection and deformation. i’ve must of installed it incorrectly.. :(

    NukieNuggz

    June 22, 2008 at 7:45 am

  12. @ Aditya Kavoor

    Nevermind, got it to working now, i’ve must of made a mistake somewhere when installing CF, but now i got it working…again thanks for a great How To :D

    NukieNuggz

    June 22, 2008 at 11:58 pm

  13. @ NukieNuggz

    Cool! Glad that it worked for you. Enjoy Compiz Fusion

    Aditya Kavoor

    June 23, 2008 at 5:48 am

  14. [...] He seguido basicamente las instrucciones que he encontrado en este enlace. [...]

  15. [...] He seguido basicamente las instrucciones que he encontrado en este enlace. [...]

  16. Unfortunaly I get: “bash: ./compiz-git: Permission denied” when I do ./compiz-git install…
    Any idea what that can be? Am running Ubuntu 8.04.1 64bit.

    FooLsKi

    July 19, 2008 at 11:47 pm

  17. type this in terminal and then re-run the code.

    sudo chmod -R 777 compiz-git

    Aditya Kavoor

    July 20, 2008 at 6:56 am

  18. That worked like a charm, thanks. Compiling now :)

    FooLsKi

    July 20, 2008 at 9:10 pm

  19. Great. Thanks

    roger

    July 21, 2008 at 7:28 am

  20. hey i fallow the direction the way you but i did not see freely transformation window ccsm any idea why i am om ubuntu 8.10 interpid file:///home/dhanwant/Desktop/Screenshot.png
    help if u can
    thank you

    Dhanwant Brar

    December 30, 2008 at 11:07 am

  21. I reinstall my Ubuntu 8.04 and install compiz-git

    $ sudo apt-get autoremove –purge compiz compiz-*
    $ wget http://www.xs4all.nl/~mgj1/downloads/compiz-git-newest.tar.gz
    $ tar xzf compiz-git-newest.tar.gz
    $ cd compiz-git
    $ sudo ./compiz-git install

    but, in the end it’s display “Pulling compiz git… failed!”
    Can you tell me how fix this? or reinstall compiz-git?
    Thanks.

    Pinguino

    April 7, 2009 at 10:35 am


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