Splashy is usually distributed as a static binary. So, in most cases, it requires no more than just the GNU standard C library (glibc).
Other requirements:
Note that to enable the framebuffer on your kernel, you will need to add a parameter to the kernel arguments: vga=791. Read the framebuffer documentation of the kernel, or Splashy's README file, on how to use different resolutions. You will also need the keyword splash as an argument. This is respected by Splashy 0.2.x and up.
Splashy is currently in Debian unstable (aka Sid) repositories.
Make sure that you have “vga=791 splash” as kernel parameters. You can add this to /boot/grub/menu.lst or /etc/lilo.conf. See the FAQ section for more.
Splashy's most recent (and testing) releases are stored in Alioth. Use them if you want to be in the bleeding edge or if you want to test Splashy.
This is the recommended installation method on Debian-based systems.
Edit /etc/apt/sources.list and add
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main
Now run:
apt-get update apt-get install splashy splashy-themes
Now, whenever the system is updated, Splashy will be updated along with it.
Use this method if “the Debian-way” method failed. Using this installation method, Splashy will not be automatically updated with the rest of your system, so it is not recommended.
To install the packages manually, go to the download area (under Files section) and download the latest version's packages. Now, depending on the kind of packages you downloaded (*.deb or *.rpm) install it with dpkg or rpm:
Note that Splashy packages are compiled statically, so they should work for Debian as well as other Linux distributions (Ubuntu, Xandros, SuSE, RedHat, etc).
There are two types of sources available:
Release tarballs are the sources of the released versions. This sources are known to be stable and should work fine.
Development sources are the sources on which the developers are working at this very moment and might not work well or not even compile, allthough they usually do. On the other hand, development sources are much more recent and usually have new features.
Additionally, it is explained here how to compile Splashy in Sarge “the Debian way” since backporting libdirectfb is needed.
To compile Splashy yourself, apart from the libraries for libdirectfb, glib2 and the optional libjpeg and libpng, you'll also need their development packages (headers).
Go to the download area (under Files section) and download the latest Splashy version's tarball (*.tar.gz or *.tar.bz2).
To compile a tarball release, just extract it, enter the directory that will be created and run:
./configure --prefix=/ --libdir=/lib --sbindir=/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc --includedir=/usr/include --datarootdir=/usr/share --mandir=/usr/share/man make && make install
To compile Splashy yourself you'll need the following additional applications:
Run the following command:
git clone git://git.debian.org/git/splashy/splashy.git
And optionally:
git clone git://git.debian.org/git/splashy/gsplashy.git git clone git://git.debian.org/git/splashy/splashy-themes.git
NOTE: Developers should follow the developers instructions.
Once you have downloaded/updated the sources, to compile Splashy just run:
cd splashy ./autogen.sh --prefix=/ make && make install
Optionally, to install all available Splashy themes:
cp -r themes/* /etc/splashy/themes
In order to install Splashy in your own custom distribution or variant of UNIX system, you would need to:
In Linux you would need to pass “vga=NNN” and “splash” to your kernel as a parameter. vga= is needed by the Kernel to enable the framebuffer. “splash” tells Splashy that it should start at boot. In order for Splashy to know this, it will attempt to read from /proc/cmdline looking for the keyword “splash”. This check should only happen on Linux, and not on any other UNIX system.
To compile splashy under Debian Sarge you'll need to get libdirectfb 0.9.22 which is not available on Sarge. But backporting it from Sid is very simple. First grab sources :
wget http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/directfb/directfb_0.9.25.1-3.diff.gz \ http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/directfb/directfb_0.9.25.1-3.dsc \ http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/directfb/directfb_0.9.25.1.orig.tar.gz
dpkg-source -x directfb_0.9.25.1-3.dsc
At this point, go into untared directory (directfb-0.9.22) and type :
dpkg-checkbuilddeps
It will show you the list of package needed to build (install them using aptitude).
Finally, still in the same directory:
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
That's it, Sarge *.deb of libdirectfb 0.9.x. Just install them and compile splashy as usual.
The uninstallation of Splashy is rather simple. Just make sure to uninstall it in the adequate way depending on how you installed it.
If you installed Splashy from a Debian package, the process is a lot simpler:
dpkg --purge splashy splashy-themes
If you compiled and installed Splashy from sources, enter Splashy's sources' directory adn run
make uninstall
It is not recommended to remove it this way unless all other uninstallation methods failed.
Removing Splashy manually is as easy as simply removing Splashy's binaries (splashy, splashy_update, splashy_config and splashy_pgrep) and init scripts from your system.
The following command will remove all Splashy files, no matter what version of Splashy you are using:
rm -f /sbin/splashy* /etc/{init,rc?}.d/[SK][0-9][0-9]splashy{Z,[0-9][0-9],-init}