WM

[withoutclass]

I got my lunar installed today, im not using the latest release candidate, but the latest stable version, and after i got everything installed and running, I tried to install a window manager without any success. I tried doing a

lin xfce
lin icewm
and lin gnome

i tried gnome last because i was hoping for a smaller WM

when trying to install xfce i got a build error when trying to make freetype
when trying to install the others, after getting a few dependencies they start an infinite loop when it reaches the point of selecting xorg/xfree86

any ideas or help?

edit::

the error when building xfce is when it tries to compile gwin_x11.o with an error 1 code

and then tttest error 2

[engelsman]

After your initial installation, did you also install XOrg?

So that Lunar can be used for lean and mean web- and mail-servers, or for firewalls, it does not provide X by default. Therefore if you want to have a desktop and graphical applications, you need to install X explicitly.

This means that installing X is a conscious decision by the user, and that installing X applications follows after installing X. All of the X applications assume that X is already installed, so they all lack a DEPENDS rule that checks for X, because this would be redundant.

Try to install XOrg and the XOrg fonts, and then re-install the X desktop(s) and applications.

[withoutclass]

ahh thank you, a little while after you posted i noticed a post that gave me that idea. I had some crazy problem with lunar update last night so im going to re-install and try installing rc2 again, then hopefully everything will work out nicely, thank for the tip