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@@ -26,16 +26,16 @@ Building:
Building is quite straightforward, and requires a basic Haskell toolchain.
On many systems xmonad is available as a binary package in your
- package system (e.g. on debian or gentoo). If at all possible, use this
+ package system (e.g. on Debian or Gentoo). If at all possible, use this
in preference to a source build, as the dependency resolution will be
simpler.
We'll now walk through the complete list of toolchain dependencies.
* GHC: the Glasgow Haskell Compiler
-
+
You first need a Haskell compiler. Your distribution's package
- system will have binaries of GHC (the Glasgow Haskell Compiler), the
+ system will have binaries of GHC (the Glasgow Haskell Compiler), the
compiler we use, so install that first. If your operating system's
package system doesn't provide a binary version of GHC, you can find
them here:
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ Building:
apt-get install ghc6
- It shouldn't be necessary to compile GHC from source -- every common
+ It shouldn't be necessary to compile GHC from source -- every common
system has a pre-build binary version.
* X11 libraries:
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ Building:
Typically you need: libXinerama libXext libX11
* Cabal
-
+
xmonad requires a recent version of Cabal, >= 1.2.0. If you're using
GHC 6.8, then it comes bundled with the right version. If you're
using GHC 6.6.x, you'll need to build and install Cabal from hackage
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ Building:
unix http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/unix
X11 http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/X11
- * Build xmonad:
+ * Build xmonad:
Once you've got all the dependencies in place (which should be
straightforward), build xmonad:
@@ -128,14 +128,14 @@ XMonadContrib
Other useful programs:
- A nicer xterm replacment, that supports resizing better:
+ A nicer xterm replacement, that supports resizing better:
urxvt http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/rxvt-unicode.html
For custom status bars:
dzen http://gotmor.googlepages.com/dzen
- xmobar http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/xmobar
+ xmobar http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/xmobar
For a program dispatch menu: