Slingshot

Instructions on installing slingshot

Asked by Fidel Gamboa

Hello! I just found your site and I love the slingshot launcher. Great work! I have downloaded the tar.bz2 file, but I am having a problem installing it. I am new to linux but a little familiar with installing at a command line but I am not familiar with the cmake method. Is there a step by step guide that can walk me through it. I would appreciate it.

Fidel - Diamond bar, California

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David Gomes (davidgomes) said : 		#1

Firstly, extract the files from the archive (tar.bz), using Archive Manager (file-roller).

Using the terminal, go to the location of the extracted folder. (cd)

Then type, in the order displayed:

mkdir build
cd build/
cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr
make
sudo make install

Then you can run it by typing "slingshot".

Take into account, though, that it is not final and that it works better with the Pantheon Shell.

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David Gomes (davidgomes) said : 		#2

Firstly, extract the files from the archive (tar.bz), using Archive Manager (file-roller).

Using the terminal, go to the location of the extracted folder. (cd)

Then type, in the order displayed:

mkdir build
cd build/
cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr
make
sudo make install

Then you can run it by typing "slingshot".

Take into account, though, that it is not final and that it works better with the Pantheon Shell.

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CruelAngel (hendricha) said : 		#3

I tried to build according to that on arch, it failed:

Linking C executable slingshot
/usr/bin/ld: CMakeFiles/slingshot.dir/src/Backend/RelevancyService.c.o: undefined reference to symbol 'powf@@GLIBC_2.0'
/usr/bin/ld: note: 'powf@@GLIBC_2.0' is defined in DSO /lib/libm.so.6 so try adding it to the linker command line
/lib/libm.so.6: could not read symbols: Invalid operation
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [slingshot] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/slingshot.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2

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Squoblat (kb-squoblat) said : 		#4

I'm having exactly the same error as CruelAngel, any insight to this would be nice!

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Squoblat (kb-squoblat) said : 		#5

I'm having exactly the same error as CruelAngel, any insight to this would be nice!

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Squoblat (kb-squoblat) said : 		#6

I'm having exactly the same error as CruelAngel, any insight to this would be nice!

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