Any supported way to install i3?

Hello,

Requirements:

I have Searched the forum for my issue and found nothing related or helpful
I have checked the Resources category Resources Index
I have reviewed the Wiki for relevant information
I have read the the Release Notes and Errata

OpenMandriva Lx version:

6.0 (Vanadium, ROCK)

Desktop environment (KDE, LXQT…):

Currently, Plasma 6. Attempting to move to i3 window manager.

Description of the issue (screenshots if relevant):

I am trying to verify if i3 is in OpenMandriva’s repositories, whether one I am not aware of, or did not install by default. I’ve noticed programs tangentially related to i3 (such as i3lock) is down when a dnf search i3 is entered into the terminal.

Relevant information (hardware involved, software version, logs or output…):

N/A to my knowledge at this time given the previous content of the post.

Thanks for reading!

i3-wm

You have to enable extra repository
Software Repository Selector | OpenMandriva wiki

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Hey @rugyada , thinking ahead of time: I was looking for way to manage OpenMandriva Lx repositories outside of om-repo-picker, i.e. via the command line. I think I may make a pull request for Software Repository Selector | OpenMandriva wiki on this.

Do you know how one would ideally do so for OpenMandriva Lx? I’m used to apt, so I looked for something like /etc/rpm/sources.list, but that doesn’t appear to exist. I’m looking through how other distros manage rpm repositories as we speak.

You find the .repo files in /etc/yum.repos.d. If you know which one you are using you can easily edit these files.

For Rock:

/etc/yum.repos.d/openmandriva-rock-x86_64.repo
or:
/etc/yum.repos.d/openmandriva-rock-znver1.repo

For ROME:

/etc/yum.repos.d/openmandriva-rolling-x86_64.repo
or:
/etc/yum.repos.d/openmandriva-rolling-znver1.repo

Normally we use 8 in Rock:

main/release (should always be enabled)
main/updates (should always be enabled)
extra/releiase (optional) (not enabled after defalt install)
extra/updates (optional) (not enabled after defalt install)
non-free/release (optional) (not enabled after defalt install)
non-free/updates (optional) (not enabled after defalt install)
restiricted/release (optional) (not enabled after defalt install)
restricted/updates (optional) (not enabled after defalt install)

ROME normally uses 4:

main/release (should always be enabled)
extra/release (optional) (not enabled after defalt install)
non-free/release (optional) (not enabled after defalt install)
restiricted/release (optional) (not enabled after defalt install)

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Hey @ben79,

Thank you sincerely!

I appreciate how comprehensive your overview of OM’s yum.repos.d is. I will absolutely make good use of it. :grin:

Thanks for @rugyada for pointing me towards the initial article. It severely assisted with me being able to craft a “good” question. I don’t know if I can mark two solutions, I’ll try to mark the most fitting one for this thread.

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