installing moodin

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ello everybody :D

installed this wonderful os yesterday. been looking round kde-look and set about customising my system. wanted a sexy splashscreen, and it seems most of the cool ones need the "moodin" engine before they work.

decompressed the .tar.gz to /home/user/moodin. changed konsole dir to /moodin and did a ./configure. all was going well until it aborted:

checking for vsnprintf... yes
checking for snprintf... yes
checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check your installation and add the correct paths!

what do i do? :(

[Patrick]

I packaged the `ksplash-engine-moodin` myself. :) (Here's it's build stuff of that faithfully package (http://revu.tauware.de/details.py?upid=981))

According to this page (http://packages.ubuntu.com/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=ksplash-engine-moodin&searchon=names&subword=1&version=all&release=all) it's in Breezy Backports (http://packages.ubuntu.com/breezy-backports/kde/ksplash-engine-moodin) so make sure you've enabled it (in /etc/apt/sources.list). It's in Dapper Universe (http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/kde/ksplash-engine-moodin) in the mean time.

To install run: `sudo apt-get install ksplash-engine-moodin` in the konsole after enabling Backports and running `sudo apt-get update`

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did as u said... sudo apt-get update also had the same error :(

hakz@godlike:/$ sudo apt-get install ksplash-engine-moodin
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?
hakz@godlike:/$

[Patrick]

Do you have Adept or something like that working?

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figured it out... had adept running as well... bit of a conflict :P

can u plz tell me how to install the theme i downloaded?

[Patrick]

Open System Settings go to the `Splash Screen` area (under Desktop). And press 'Add', look for the tarball of the theme in that box and click it. (it will install itself)

~ Patrick

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ty :D