Note

thanks to prasanthrangan's work, I only took his themes and modified the scripts so that they could work in debian prasanthrangan github page

• Tested on Ubuntu (gnome) Lunar Lobster
• Tested on Ubuntu cinnamon Lunar Lobster
• you tell me ...

STEP 1 : Edit the apt sorces list

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

Uncomment all lines starting with deb-src (if none, skip)

STEP 2 :

Install run dependencies and make dependencies from official repo

FYI : I used nala instead of apt

Some dependencies will be needed to be built from source (see Step 4)

sudo apt-get install golang-go check libgtk-3-dev libsystemd0 libsystemd-dev libegl1-mesa libegl1-mesa-dev libgbm1 libgbm-dev libgles2-mesa-dev meson wget build-essential ninja-build cmake-extras cmake gettext gettext-base fontconfig libfontconfig-dev libffi-dev libxml2-dev libdrm-dev libxkbcommon-x11-dev libxkbregistry-dev libxkbcommon-dev libpixman-1-dev libudev-dev libseat-dev seatd libxcb-dri3-dev libvulkan-dev libvulkan-volk-dev  vulkan-validationlayers-dev libvkfft-dev libgulkan-dev libegl-dev libgles2 libegl1-mesa-dev glslang-tools libinput-bin libinput-dev libxcb-composite0-dev libavutil-dev libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libxcb-ewmh2 libxcb-ewmh-dev libxcb-present-dev libxcb-icccm4-dev libxcb-render-util0-dev libxcb-res0-dev libxcb-xinput-dev libpango1.0-dev xdg-desktop-portal-wlr hwdata git libdrm-dev gdb xwayland libliftoff-dev libdisplay-info-dev libpipewire-0.3-dev libinih-dev libgmp-dev scdoc libpam0g libpam0g-dev valgrind libgtk-4-1 libgtk-4-dev edid-decode 

STEP 3 : Install Rust

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

rustup default 1.7.0

Warning

When you installing rustup, select nightly version othervise you wont be able to build pacakge Also if you have nvidia gpu, go to Hyprland nvidia page and aplay sugestions For more details, please refer Hyprland Nvidia

STEP 4 : Build some dependencies from source

Why? Why is this not added to script, I want you to do this manually because the compilor may show error while building, all errors are highlighted by the color red in your terminal, If you see any error regarding a certain build dependency, then google it or ask some AI bot which package should you install via apt to fulfill that dependency

STEP 4.1 : libdisplay-info

git clone https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/emersion/libdisplay-info.git

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

meson setup --prefix=/usr --buildtype=release &&
ninja

sudo ninja install &&
cd ..

STEP 4.2 : libliftoff

git clone https://salsa.debian.org/debian/libliftoff.git

meson setup ..            \
      --prefix=/usr       \
      --buildtype=release \

cd build &&
ninja

sudo ninja install &&
cd ..

STEP 4.3 : wayland-protocols

wget https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/releases/1.32/downloads/wayland-protocols-1.32.tar.xz

tar -xvJf wayland-protocols-1.32.tar.xz

cd wayland-protocols-1.32

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

meson setup --prefix=/usr --buildtype=release &&
ninja

sudo ninja install

STEP 4.4 : wayland

wget https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland/-/releases/1.22.0/downloads/wayland-1.22.0.tar.xz

cd wayland-1.22.0
mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

meson setup ..            \
      --prefix=/usr       \
      --buildtype=release \
      -Ddocumentation=false &&
ninja

sudo ninja install &&
cd ../..

STEP 4.5 : libinput

git clone https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput

cd libinput

git clone https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput

cd libinput

meson --prefix=/usr builddir/

ninja -C builddir/

sudo ninja -C builddir/ install

sudo systemd-hwdb update

STEP 4.6 (option) : libdrm (for DRM playback support)

git clone https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/drm.git

cd drm &&
meson --prefix=/usr builddir/

ninja -C builddir/

sudo ninja -C builddir/ install

STEP 5 : YAY ! Manual Installations completed, now you can run script : clone and execute -

STEP 5A : Build Hyprland and utilities

• This step 5A can be perform in either of two ways or even a mix of both !

  Method 1 : Manual

• We get Source

wget https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/releases/download/v0.29.0/source-v0.29.0.tar.gz &&
tar -xvf source-v0.29.0.tar.gz

• you will need to change the folder permisions due to the use of sudo, so in the future you can acces and modify the folder

chmod a+rw hyprland-source &&
cd hyprland-source/

sudo make install

• Now that Hyprland is installed, we can download all utilities
• I recommend using Nix: the package manager

sh <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install) --no-daemon

• now restart shell/terminal and install using

nix-env -iA nixpkgs.swww

nix-env -iA nixpkgs.xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland

nix-env -iA nixpkgs.swappy

nix-env -iA nixpkgs.wl-clipboard

nix-env -iA nixpkgs.swaylock
nix-env -iA nixpkgs.swaylock-effects

nix-env -iA nixpkgs.pokemon-colorscripts-mac

• done, now skip to Step 5B

sudo apt install git
git clone https://github.com/Senshi111/debian-hyprland-hyprdots.git
cd ~/debian-hyprland-hyprdots/build-hyprland-and-apps
./install-all.sh

• also

  sudo apt-get install waybar
  

Now lets verify if everything has installed :

which Hyprland && which  swww &&  which  swappy && which  wl-copy && which  swaylock && which  nwg-look

Verify all above packages have a path

I was not able to build swww and xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland through installation script; so I installed it via nix-env

• What is nix-env ? -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwEIXIjLTNs

Why not install even Hyprland via nix-env?

Answer : does not work

• install a polkit agent (for example : mate-polkit), you might want to enable the service at startup (see Hyprland Wiki)

sudo apt-get install mate-polkit-bin

• If you are going to Rice with the script below, beware that your waybar version is outdated; you can install waybar via nix-env to get the latest version

  nix-env -iA nixpkgs.waybar

STEP 5B : Get Themes

cd ~/debian-hyprland-hyprdots/Theme/Configs/

rsync -avxHAXP --exclude '.git*' .* ~/

cd ~/debian-hyprland-hyprdots/Theme/Scripts
./install.sh

Note

You can also create your own list (for ex. custom_apps.lst) with all your favorite apps and pass the file as a parameter to install it -

./install.sh custom_apps.lst

• gdm not found? edit the script and replace gdm with your display manager (sddm recommended)

Please reboot after the install script completes and takes you to sddm login screen (or black screen) for the first time.
For more details, please refer installation.md

To add your own custom theme, please refer theming.md

• Available themes

  • Catppuccin-Mocha
  • Catppuccin-Latte
  • Decay-Green
  • Rosé-Pine
  • Tokyo-Night
  • Material-Sakura
  • Graphite-Mono
  • Cyberpunk-Edge
  • Gruvbox-Retro (maybe later)
  • Nordic-Blue (maybe later)

• Contributors themes

  • Frosted-Glass by T-Crypt

Catppuccin-Mocha

Catppuccin-Latte

Decay-Green

Rosé-Pine

Tokyo-Night

Material-Sakura

Graphite-Mono

Cyberpunk-Edge

Frosted-Glass

Theme Select

Wallpaper Select

Launcher Style Select

Launcher Styles

Wlogout Menu

Playlist

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