Kiba-Dock Installation

This guide will show you two methods of installing kiba-dock. Method one will walk you through the steps of installing Kiba-Dock on Fedora 8 using Gauret's repository as our package source. Method two will use the svn to download the latest version and will walk you through the steps of compiling and installing kiba-dock.

Method 1

1. Click on Applications-System Tools-Terminal to open a terminal and then switch to root user.
   
   

   [jesse@lintush ~]$ su - [root@lintush ~]#

   
   
2. Switch to the repository directory.
   

[jesse@lintush ~]$ cd /etc/yum.repos.d/ [root@lintush yum.repos.d]#

3. Install wget and Add the Gauret repository.
   
   

   [root@lintush yum.repos.d]# yum install wget [root@lintush yum.repos.d]# wget http://gauret.free.fr/fichiers/rpms/fedora/gauret.repo

   
   
4. Import the key for Gauret's repository.
   
   

   [root@lintush yum.repos.d]# rpm --import http://gauret.free.fr/fichiers/rpms/fedora/gauret.key.asc

   
   
5. Install Kiba-Dock applications.
   
   

   [root@lintush yum.repos.d]# yum --enablerepo=gauret install kiba-dbus-plugins kiba-dock kiba-plugins amakaru

   
   
6. Now add a session for Kiba-dock. Click on System-Preferences-Personal-Sessions to get the startup programs window.
   
   
   
   
7. Click on the button +Add to add the kiba-dock session and type in what's in the fields below (you don't really need the comment) then click on OK.
   
   
   
   
   
8. Log out and log back in and kiba-dock will appear at the bottom of screen.
   
   
9. Adding launchers is easy, just drag them in from the menu or right click on Kiba-dock, scroll to Populate Dock and click on Add Launcher as shown in picture below.
   
   
   
   
10. Now just double click on the launcher or application you want to add as shown in figure below and and the launcher appears on the Kiba-Dock.
    
    
    
    

Method 2

1. Switch to home directory.
   
   

   [jesse@lintush ~]$ cd ~

   
   
2. Install the following packages:
   
   

   [jesse@lintush ~]$ sudo yum -y install gcc svn intltool libtool glib glib-devel glib2 glib2-devel pango pango-devel gtk+ gtk+-devel gtk2 gtk2-devel libxml2 libxml2-devel dbus-glib-devel pygtk2-devel pidgin-devel librsvg2-devel xulrunner-devel gnome-menus-devel libgnome-devel libbonoboui-devel libbonobo-devel libgnomeui-devel libgtop2-devel gnome-common epiphany-devel

   
   
3. Download kiba-dock latest version source code with svn.
   
   

   [jesse@lintush ~]$ sudo svn co https://kibadock.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/kibadock/trunk/ kiba

   
   
4. Switch to akamaru directory, configure akamaru, compile akamaru, and install akamaru.
   
   

   [jesse@lintush ~]$ cd kiba/akamaru [jesse@lintush ~]$ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr [jesse@lintush ~]$ make [jesse@lintush ~]$ sudo make install

   
   
5. Switch to kiba-dock directory, configure kiba-dock, compile kiba-dock, and install kiba-dock.
   
   

   [jesse@lintush ~]$ cd .. [jesse@lintush ~]$ cd kiba-dock [jesse@lintush ~]$ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr [jesse@lintush ~]$ make [jesse@lintush ~]$ sudo make install

   
   
6. Switch to kiba-plugins directory, configure kiba-plugins, compile kiba-plugins, and install kiba-plugins.
   
   

   [jesse@lintush ~]$ cd .. [jesse@lintush ~]$ cd kiba-plugins [jesse@lintush ~]$ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr [jesse@lintush ~]$ make [jesse@lintush ~]$ sudo make install

   
   
7. Switch to kiba-dbus-plugins directory, configure kiba-dbus-plugins, compile kiba-dbus-plugins, and install kiba-dbus-plugins.
   
   

   [jesse@lintush ~]$ cd .. [jesse@lintush ~]$ cd kiba-dbus-plugins [jesse@lintush ~]$ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr [jesse@lintush ~]$ make [jesse@lintush ~]$ sudo make install

   
   
8. Switch to kiba-gaim-plugin directory, configure kiba-gaim-plugin, compile kiba-gaim-plugin, and install kiba-gaim-plugin.
   
   

   [jesse@lintush ~]$ cd .. [jesse@lintush ~]$ cd kiba-gaim-plugin [jesse@lintush ~]$ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr [jesse@lintush ~]$ make [jesse@lintush ~]$ sudo make install

   
   
9. Check for the directory(/usr/lib/kiba-dock/global_plugins). If it doesn't exist then run the following command.
   
   

   [jesse@lintush ~]$ sudo mkdir /usr/lib/kiba-dock/global_plugins

   
   
10. Now add kiba-dock to a session and add launchers. Follow steps 6-10 from installation method 1.

Agreement

Comments

Message posted on Tuesday, January 1, 2008 at 03:23:58 pm By: Jesus(Jesse)
No picture Available	Kiba-Dock has got to be the best docking bar around. It has some very nice special effects with the physics engine. Also, turning off the physics engine allows you to use it as a docking bar similar to that of the MacOS.
Message posted on Sunday, February 10, 2008 at 01:47:32 am By: Roessi
No picture Available	Thank you. Just need to install Fedora 8 and try.
Message posted on Friday, March 14, 2008 at 11:08:23 pm By: JeSuS
	omg kiba-dock is awsome!!^^ i like playing around with it^^ -bouncy bouncy bouncy-^^ i like avant window navigator too ^^ but i think by so far this ones the bestest^^ xD jeje thank you mr. ramirezzzz!!^^
Message posted on Friday, May 16, 2008 at 05:33:32 pm By: jesus
No picture Available	mr ramirez i dont think kiba dock is compatible for fedora 9 =/ everytime i run it it doesnt show upp but it kills my cpu =/ look... http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p9/jesus_anaya92/Screenshot-1.png
Message posted on Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 07:50:19 am By: Jesse
No picture Available	Does it work at all with Fedora 9? What happens when you run it? What do you mean by it kills my cpu? Does it freeze?
Message posted on Thursday, May 22, 2008 at 12:09:41 pm By: Night
No picture Available	Have you tried to rebuild it in F9 and see if it works that way?
Message posted on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 at 02:46:07 pm By: Jesse
No picture Available	No. I have not tried it. I will when I have some time. Maybe this weekend. I will try to build from source.

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