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MidGe

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Help needed for awesomewm (SOLVED)

After a hiatus, I am again coming back to BunsenLabs but I have an issue which hopefully is trivial to resolve.

On a fresh install of the latest BunsenLabs, I would like to install awesomewm. Unfortunately it seems not to be available, or, at least, I cannot find it, although I know it is available in Debian Trixie.

Could anyone point out to me where to find it? Or is it incompatible with the latest BunsenLabs?

Thanks for any help.

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johnraff

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Re: Help needed for awesomewm (SOLVED)

The package is named "awesome" and it's available in Trixie. BunsenLabs uses the same Debian Trixie repository, so it's available here too.

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MidGe

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Re: Help needed for awesomewm (SOLVED)

Hi John,

Sorry, but it is not available on the latest BunsenLabs. It seems that BunsenLabs use its own repository (pkg.bunsenlabs.org/debian/) on my fresh installation without awesome.

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Re: Help needed for awesomewm (SOLVED)

What does

apt-cache policy

say?

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MidGe

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Re: Help needed for awesomewm (SOLVED)

michel@bunsen:~$ apt-cache policy
Package files:
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     release a=now
500 https://pkg.bunsenlabs.org/debian carbon/main amd64 Packages
     release o=bunsenlabs,a=carbon,n=carbon,l=bunsenlabs,c=main,b=amd64
     origin pkg.bunsenlabs.org
500 https://deb.debian.org/debian-security trixie-security/non-free-firmware amd64 Packages
     release v=13,o=Debian,a=stable-security,n=trixie-security,l=Debian-Security,c=non-free-firmware,b=amd64
     origin deb.debian.org
500 https://deb.debian.org/debian-security trixie-security/main amd64 Packages
     release v=13,o=Debian,a=stable-security,n=trixie-security,l=Debian-Security,c=main,b=amd64
     origin deb.debian.org
Pinned packages:

brontosaurusrex

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Re: Help needed for awesomewm (SOLVED)

How about?

apt-cache search awesome | head

I get (pure trixie)

python-aiomysql-doc - library for accessing a MySQL database from the asyncio (common documentation)
python3-aiomysql - library for accessing a MySQL using asyncio (Python 3)
awesome - highly configurable X window manager
awesome-doc - highly configurable X window manager - documentation
awesome-extra - additional modules for awesome
python3-awesomeversion - Version parsing and comparison library for Python
compass-breakpoint-plugin - really simple media queries with Sass
compass-toolkit-plugin - toolkit of awesome Sass stuff
connman-gtk - fully-featured GUI for ConnMan with systray support
connman-ui - full-featured GTK-based tray icon UI for ConnMan

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MidGe

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Re: Help needed for awesomewm (SOLVED)

I get nothing, of course.

michel@bunsen:~$ apt-cache search awesome | head
michel@bunsen:~$

You must have debian repository selected on your machine.  Mine is a completely fresh install of BunsenLabs and there is only the BunsenLab repo and the debian-security.  I suspect there may be some conflict with the standard debian repo.

brontosaurusrex

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Re: Help needed for awesomewm (SOLVED)

I'am not actually familiar with the latest greatest sources.list file, but it appears as If 'you are' missing main debian repo

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie main

or some similar problem, mind posting your /etc/apt/sources.list ?

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MidGe

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Re: Help needed for awesomewm (SOLVED)

Of course.  I know very well that I do not have the debian repo.  I do have the BunsenLabs default repo which I think source from debian.

As I said this is a fresh install, if the debian repo was needed I would expect the link to it to be installed. The fact that it is not, I suspect is because the override from the BunsenLabs repo might otherwise create conflict for those items that are modified by BunsenLabs.

As I said I have used BunsenLabs before on my main workstation and I thought I may get back to it.  But I never had to add the debian repo afaik.

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Re: Help needed for awesomewm (SOLVED)

@MidGe how did you install BunsenLabs? Please post the result of:

cat /etc/bunsen/bunsen_install

The BL default repo does not "source from Debian" - it's an independent repo which provides the BL packages only. All other Debian packages are provided by the debian repos which should have been added to your sources at install time. There is no "conflict" between the two. No Debian packages are modified by BunsenLabs.

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MidGe

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Re: Help needed for awesomewm (SOLVED)

Thanks for trying to help, John.

Here is my install:

michel@bunsen:~$ cat /etc/bunsen/bunsen_install
Install method: iso
Version: carbon-1-260211-amd64
Disk info: Debian GNU/Linux 13 "Carbon" - Snapshot amd64 LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20260211-06:40
Install date: 2026-03-01T08:11:55
michel@bunsen:~$

I will be off now, as it is late here. Be back in a few hours.

Thanks, again.

johnraff

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Re: Help needed for awesomewm (SOLVED)

The most common reason for missing repositories is when installation has been done offline. This is a failing of the Debian Installer, which BL uses. However, our welcome script will fix it. There should have been a popup offering to run the script on first run of a new installation. You can run it now with bl-welcome in a terminal, and that should offer to add any missing repos.

If the popup didn't appear and you have various other dektop issues, then it might be that you are running on a VM without 3d acceleration. See the release notes: https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=9675

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MidGe

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Re: Help needed for awesomewm (SOLVED)

Thank you.

That was the issue. Running the script again fixed it.  I guess I may accidentally have passed or missed the script question about adding debian repos.

Anyway, well fixed.

Thanks to all for trying to help.

I am now going to check if I can use BunsenLabs again on my main workstation. I did use it for a few years before.