How to install bunsenlabs on ubuntu?

ronskimpi · 2017-04-01 09:52:37

How do I install bunsenlabs on ubuntu?
I found some old guides about this but none of them seemed to work.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2017-04-01 10:41:41

Somebody else tried this, not much success though:

https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=3478

May I ask, why do you want an Ubuntu base?

What is offered by the derivative that you cannot find in the source?

hhh · 2017-04-01 18:57:14

More interesting to me is what does BunsenLabs offer that you want on an Ubuntu system?

D219 · 2017-05-12 17:41:12

Argh, post was swallowed by not being still logged when posting it.

Basically, I was saying that I also have the goal to make a BLUbuntu, and am actively working on it. I don't have a lot of free time so things goes really slowly, but are still going.

You will have to do a netinstall (minimal install) of ubuntu, and add bit by bit the programs that make BunsenLabs. If you are just interested in the look and feel, you need:

openbox
nitrogen
tint2
compton
terminator
geany
thunar
firefox

And import the configuration from a BunsenLabs install.

On my side, I have also installed some other apps (lightdm, don't remember the others right now), and stopped at importing the configuration because it involve a lot of search and doesn't learn me as much about Linux than when I was studying the nook and crany of BL.

My final goal is to make a installation script (probably based on the netinstall script from BL) using Ubuntu's repos instead of BL/Debian's ones.

D219 · 2017-05-12 17:46:10

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

May I ask, why do you want an Ubuntu base?

hhh wrote:

More interesting to me is what does BunsenLabs offer that you want on an Ubuntu system?

Even though I cannot answer for ronskimpi, the goal for me is to have the look and feel of BL, which I've fallen in love of, but also be able to benefit from all the work made on Ubuntu.

A lot of games for example say they are Linux compatibles, a lot of high target application too, when they are in reality built against Ubuntu, and support is nonexistent if you don't have at least a Ubuntu derivative.

Maybe OP have the same problem?

D219 · 2017-05-15 18:04:30

@Glenn: Interesting, althought I would miss the BunsenLabs branding, and the community around Icebox doesn't seems as develloped as BL.
Will take a long hard look at it for sure, I m downloading it, I will reduce my BLUbuntu partition to accomodate IceBox for a time

johnraff · 2017-05-16 01:12:12

Glenn wrote:

No one will fault you for using a different distro and doing so certainly won't disqualify you from being an active member of the BunsenLabs community.

Exactly.

D219 · 2017-05-16 07:50:04

Glenn wrote:

@D219, lol... No one will fault you for using a different distro and doing so certainly won't disqualify you from being an active member of the BunsenLabs community. Heck, many members and even some moderators here use other distributions.

Sure, and I like BL too much to leave it anyway

Glenn wrote:

'Branding', is something I know nothing of and a topic you'll need to take up with those who've worked tirelessly to make BL what it is

That's what I am planning to do with the "BLUbuntu", once I ll have a good enought understanding of BL's inner working and Linux in general, I plan to try to take and copy BL with a Ubuntu base, and for that I will probably start by asking a BL maintainer the list of package they use, so I can incorporate them one by one

Althought in the meantime, having a Icebox partition somewhere so I can play my GOG games is a really nice idea

hhh · 2017-05-16 13:08:21

Stick a BunsenLabs wall on it... boom, branded.

http://bunsenlabs.deviantart.com/galler … Wallpapers

https://github.com/hhhorb/bunsen-wallpapers?files=1

@damo, @brontosaurusrex and others also have galleries. There are Archlabs walls if you use Arch, see their thread on our forums, as well as our wallpaper and screenshot threads.

D219 · 2017-05-17 23:48:01

@Glenn: Wanted to thanks you for making me discovering Icebox, it s a little more rought on the edges than BL, but I like it a lot. Ended up removing my BLUbuntu partition to leave it enought room to use as my gaming OS

@hhh: I was thinking more along the line of "replicating as much of BL on Ubuntu as possible". The long term objective would be to make BL and BLU work the same, and just have the inner working differ

johnraff · 2017-05-18 01:31:39

D219 wrote:

I was thinking more along the line of "replicating as much of BL on Ubuntu as possible". The long term objective would be to make BL and BLU work the same, and just have the inner working differ

Starting from a "server install" of Ubuntu (ie just CLI with a minimal set of installed packages) it should be possible. However, some of the BunsenLabs packages would probably have to be modified to get them to work on Ubuntu, and some of the Debian packages - libraries especially - may have different names and dependencies on Ubuntu.

august · 2017-05-20 17:25:14

Unimpressed with Icebox because unless I missed something it doesn't seem to come with any hotkeys, which I think is a huge omission in an Openbox distro.

I just installed Xubuntu 16.04 and followed this guide. and everything seems to be working great. Getting more frames in emulators which is what I was looking for plus it's Xubuntu LTS so this box is pretty much set until 2019.

damo · 2017-05-20 18:43:54

august wrote:

Unimpressed with Icebox because unless I missed something it doesn't seem to come with any hotkeys, which I think is a huge omission in an Openbox distro.....

There is presumably an rc.xml included, which can be edited. Or just copy in a working one.

#1 2017-04-01 09:52:37

How to install bunsenlabs on ubuntu?

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