[Howto] install a working Twin(Text-based WINdows) on Xubuntu 8.04

[yannis]

I read this article and really liked the idea of working entirelly on test-based enviroment.

I tried w3m i liked it and i always used mplayer in terminal!
So i want to give a try in Twin.

The first thing to do is type 'twin', i got 'twin not installed, if you want sudo ...'. So i did it

sudo apt-get install twin

for a some reason(might be i have the greek version of xubuntu). the twin started but all the text is screwed up and in gibberish. So i googled it.

Here how it goes.

1. Download the source from the linuz.sns.it
   

   $ wget http://linuz.sns.it/~max/twin/twin-0.6.2.tar.gz

2. Extract it
   

   $ tar -zxvf twin-0.6.2.tar.gz
   $ cd twin-0.6.2

3. and you will get the uncompressed files, ready to configure and compile with...
   BUT
   for a strange reason the configure create files .modules that are full with lines like these
   

   -e
   -e
   -e
   
   -e ifeq ($(SYS_SHLIBS),native)
   
   -e endif

   if you run 'make' you will take errors like ".modules:1: *** missing separator. Stop."
   
   so first eliminate all lines with just -e and remove -e before ifeq(i've done it manually possibly there is an easier way!)
   
   and then run
   

   $ ./configure
   $ make

4. your next headache is the *flags files that are also full of orphans '-e'. Enerytime you see '*** missing separator. Stop." error you know what to do just eliminate the '-e's.
   
   and then finally you can run
   

   $ make install

5. to start your new windows manager simply type
   

   $ twstart

   or
   

   $ twin

enjoy!