[PATCH wayland-web] raspberrypi: mention Raspbian packages

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Mon Jun 3 06:50:02 PDT 2013


From: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen at collabora.co.uk>

Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen at collabora.co.uk>
Cc: Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org>
Cc: Alex Bradbury <asb at asbradbury.org>

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Darxus, could you wait till tomorrow until pushing this, so Daniel and
Alex can comment, if there's anything to add?

Thanks,
pq
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 raspberrypi.html | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)

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 <a href="http://www.raspberrypi.org/">Raspberry Pi</a>. All commands and
 compiling are done directly on the Pi.</p>
 
+<p>However, if you just want to try Weston and not build it, there are
+packages.</p>
+
+<blockquote>
+<h3>Raspbian packages</h3>
+
+<p>There are pre-built Wayland and Weston packages for the
+<a href="http://www.raspbian.org/">Raspbian</a> distribution.</p>
+
+<p>Add the following line to <tt>/etc/apt/sources.list</tt> file:</p>
+<pre>    deb http://raspberrypi.collabora.com wheezy rpi
+</pre>
+<p>Then just issue:</p>
+<pre>    sudo apt-get install weston</pre>
+
+<p>This will install also a script called <tt>weston-launch</tt>
+(not the real <tt>weston-launch</tt> program), which will automatically
+set up <tt>XDG_RUNTIME_DIR</tt> for you and run <tt>weston</tt>.
+Running Weston with this package is as simple as:</p>
+<pre>    weston-launch</pre>
+<p>No need to manually set up environment variables. The firmware notes
+below are still worth checking, though.</p>
+</blockquote>
+
+
 <h2>Build dependencies</h2>
 
 <p>Assuming you are using the Raspbian distribution, install the
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1.8.1.5



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