This post is part of the process to Install the Fedora 10 Theme in Ubuntu.
Fedora 10 has a nice and clean theme that you might prefer over those available with a default install of Ubuntu. I’m going to show how to install Fedora’s Nodoka theme engine. This howto is based on the one I found on the Ubuntu Unleashed website about installing the Nodoka theme for Ubuntu. I’ve modified the process to install the latest versions of the software available. As usual, this Ubuntu howto will require a bit of work from the command line.
Since I haven’t found Ubuntu packages for Nodoka, we’ll have to compile from the source code. First off, we need to install the build-essential and libgtk2.0-dev packages.
Now that you have the dependencies installed you’re ready to download the source packages and start compiling. To start off, it’s best to create a directory to work in.
cd nodoka
Download the GTK Nodoka Engine package form the Fedora server and extract the archive.
tar zxvf gtk-nodoka-engine-0.7.2.tar.gz
You’re ready to start compiling.
cd gtk-nodoka-engine-0.7.2 ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-animation make
Now that the compiling is done, you’re ready to install. You can use sudo make install, but I prefer to use checkinstall so that I have a package that can be managed with apt.
Now you need the Nodoka Gnome Theme.
wget https://fedorahosted.org/releases/n/o/nodoka/nodoka-theme-gnome-0.3.90.tar.gz
tar zxvf nodoka-theme-gnome-0.3.90.tar.gz
Now install the theme.
sudo cp -r Nodoka/ /usr/share/themes/
You should now be able to select the Nodoka theme. Go to the menu and select System->Preferences->Appearance, select Nodoka and click Close.
Thanks for this!
It failed for me, though, on Ubuntu 9.10.
Firstly, because I didn’t have “checkinstall” – but I installed that. It then installed the theme, but when I try to select it, I get an error:
This theme will not look as intended because
the required icon theme ‘Fedora’ is not installed.
I searched art.gnome.org/themes/ for this, but with no joy…
I get the following error :
graham@lodainn:~/nodoka/gtk-nodoka-engine-0.7.2$ ./configure –prefix=/usr –enable-animation
configure: error: invalid variable name: –prefix
any ideas?
Lodainn – I found the problem. WordPress has a tendency to convert double hyphens into a dash. I’ve fixed the post. Those are double hyphens in front of prefix and enable. Try the code from the updated post and it should work now.
Thanks for the comment and for helping me make the site better.
Thank you! It works great. I really love it the most just because I am able to see blue on Rhythmbox. xD