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[SOLVED] Compiz is missing from Wheezy

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[SOLVED] Compiz is missing from Wheezy

#1 Post by _nicolas_ »

Many months ago I installed wheezy in my laptop and desktop pc, running xfce with compiz, both installed from the official repositories.

Now I had to reinstall my laptop and everything has been right with wheezy with the only exception being the lack of compiz in the repositories.
I've searched this forum and also google, and I haven't found anything regarding the absece of compiz from wheezy. From http://www.debian.org I see that compiz is available in the repositories of squeeze.

Where can I grab compiz from, to use it with wheezy?
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Re: Compiz is missing from Wheezy

#2 Post by craigevil »

Package compiz

squeeze (stable) (x11): OpenGL window and compositing manager
0.8.4-4: all
sid (unstable) (x11): OpenGL window and compositing manager
0.8.4-5.1: all
experimental (rc-buggy) (x11): OpenGL window and compositing manager - metapackage
0.9.2.1+git20110226.f059fae9-4: all


compiz - Why is package X not in testing yet? - http://release.debian.org/migration/tes ... age=compiz
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Re: Compiz is missing from Wheezy

#3 Post by _nicolas_ »

Thanks for your clarification.
Does anyone have information about when this issue could be solved?

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#4 Post by craigevil »

You can try installing it from sid, or backport it either one should be reasonably simple.

Howto get newer package versions for Debian Stable -
https://www.linuxquestions.org/question ... ble-34611/


To install it from sid try doing:

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echo 'APT::Default-Release "testing";' >> /etc/apt/apt.conf, edit sources.list, copy your non-security testing lines and change one set to sid, then apt-get update.  Use apt-get -t sid install foo; to install foo from sid rather than testing as usual.  WARNING to SYNAPTIC users: Synaptic ignores Default-Release: set Preferences->Distribution
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Re: Compiz is missing from Wheezy

#5 Post by _nicolas_ »

Thank you very much!

These steps (as described by you) worked for me:


Added this new line to /etc/apt/sources.list
## SID: to get compiz
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sid main non-free contrib

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sudo su
echo 'APT::Default-Release "testing";' >> /etc/apt/apt.conf
apt-get update
apt-get install compiz
The last line worked for me just as that. Perhaps in other systems could be necessary to type instead:

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apt-get -t sid install compiz

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Re: [SOLVED] Compiz is missing from Wheezy

#6 Post by olegich84 »

thanks from me too! it works! (the sid repo)
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Re: [SOLVED] Compiz is missing from Wheezy

#7 Post by craigevil »

It is missing from Wheezy because upstream development is at a stand still. it will not be in Wheezy when it releases and will most likely get removed from sid in the near future.
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Re: [SOLVED] Compiz is missing from Wheezy

#8 Post by microcore »

Does compiz from sid works without issues?
It is possible to install compiz from squeeze to wheezy?

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Re: [SOLVED] Compiz is missing from Wheezy

#9 Post by hhh »

microcore wrote:Does compiz from sid works without issues?
Yes.
It is possible to install compiz from squeeze to wheezy?
I don't think so due to gcc, but it did for me from sid with no problems

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Re: [SOLVED] Compiz is missing from Wheezy

#10 Post by rfgiusti »

craigevil wrote:It is missing from Wheezy because upstream development is at a stand still. it will not be in Wheezy when it releases and will most likely get removed from sid in the near future.
Sorry, I'm quite new to the terminology. What do you mean by "upstream development is at a stand still"? Compiz released a stable version just a few days ago. Why isn't it being packaged into Wheezy?

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Re: [SOLVED] Compiz is missing from Wheezy

#11 Post by Dr Adel »

Thanks a lot.

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Re: [SOLVED] Compiz is missing from Wheezy

#12 Post by layr »

craigevil wrote:It is missing from Wheezy because upstream development is at a stand still. it will not be in Wheezy when it releases and will most likely get removed from sid in the near future.
Would you elaborate on that? What are the reasons for removing the packages from even sid's repos? Compiz is currently being rewritten; is it really a dead project?

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Re: [SOLVED] Compiz is missing from Wheezy

#13 Post by bk_ »

Has anyone recently got this to work? I repeated the steps given by _nicolas_ and got this:

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root@PC:/home/user# apt-get install compiz
Reading package lists... Done
E: The value 'testing' is invalid for APT::Default-Release as such a release is not available in the sources
root@PC:/home/user# apt-get -t sid install compiz
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package compiz is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'compiz' has no installation candidate
Does anyone have any ideas?
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