Awesome Dot Files Config and How to Setup on Ubuntu/POP-OS/Debain and other debian based distro

Awesome Configuration

Config Files Repo : https://github.com/Bearbobs/glorious-awesome-debian

Setps to setup on debain based system as the original author is on arch and It's quite diffrent procedure as compared.

## Awesome and Rofi are quite old in debain repo, Building from Git is required.

    Steps to do the same.
       ## Rofi->
             git clone --recursive https://github.com/DaveDavenport/rofi
             cd rofi
             sudo apt install flex bison librsvg2-dev libjpeg-dev libxcb-ewmh-dev libxcb-randr0-dev libxcb-xtest0-dev libxcb-xinerama0-dev libxcb-shape0-dev libxcb-xkb-dev
             meson setup build
             ninja -C build
             sudo ninja -C build install
       ## Awesome->
             sudo apt build-dep awesome
             git clone https://github.com/awesomewm/awesome
             cd awesome
             make package
             sudo apt install build/*.deb
             
## Building Compositor for Debain
        ##Picom->
              git clone https://github.com/tryone144/compton.git
              cd compton
              git fetch
              git checkout feature/dual_kawase
              sudo apt install libxext-dev libxcb1-dev libxcb-damage0-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev libxcb-shape0-dev libxcb-render-util0-dev libxcb-render0-dev libxcb-randr0-dev libxcb-composite0-dev libxcb-image0-dev libxcb-present-dev libxcb-xinerama0-dev libpixman-1-dev libdbus-1-dev libconfig-dev libxdg-basedir-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libpcre2-dev libevdev-dev uthash-dev libev-dev cmake libx11-xcb-dev libxcb-glx0-dev
              git submodule update --init --recursive
              meson --buildtype=release . build
              ninja -C build
              ninja -C build install

## log in into awesome and fixing configs
        *Please backup any previous configs*
              git clone https://github.com/Bearbobs/glorious-awesome-debian.git
              cd glorious-awesome-debian
              -> Copy awesome folder to .config
## login to awesome desktop environment and enjoy!
Please Drop comment for any Help and Amendment.
Main Developer and Maintainer : https://github.com/manilarome/the-glorious-dotfiles

I'm getting the error:
ninja: Entering directory build' [1/2] Installing files. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/name/.local/bin/meson", line 6, in <module> from mesonbuild.mesonmain import main ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'mesonbuild' FAILED: meson-install /home/name/.local/bin/meson install --no-rebuild ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
anyone knows how to fix this?

ok so the solution was to install meson using sudo:sudo pip3 install meson

A new problem, i'm trying to install the packages required to install picom and i get this error:
The following packages have unmet dependencies: libgl1-mesa-dev : Depends: mesa-common-dev (= 19.2.8-0ubuntu0~19.10.3) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libglvnd-dev but it is not going to be installed Depends: libdrm-dev (>= 2.4.95) but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
any solutions?

Picom only

Running Debian 10 bullseye had to add dependencies plus ninja & meson to get this installed. (Also removed compton before installing)
Added depens = cmake libx11-xcb-dev libxcb-glx0-dev

The complete list.
sudo apt install libxext-dev libxcb1-dev libxcb-damage0-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev libxcb-shape0-dev libxcb-render-util0-dev libxcb-render0-dev libxcb-randr0-dev libxcb-composite0-dev libxcb-image0-dev libxcb-present-dev libxcb-xinerama0-dev libpixman-1-dev libdbus-1-dev libconfig-dev libxdg-basedir-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libpcre2-dev libevdev-dev uthash-dev libev-dev cmake libx11-xcb-dev libxcb-glx0-dev
sudo pip3 install ninja
sudo pip3 install meson

Is rofi supposed to be inside the awesome folder or home folder?

rofi has a config file /home/your name/.config/rofi/config
https://github.com/davatorium/rofi

Plus for some reason even after I install awesome there is no /usr/share/xsessions/awesome.desktop

Updated the gist for the issues, 13/05/2020

When I run the make command I get the following error:
make[3]: lua: Command not found
CMakeFiles/generate_awesomerc.dir/build.make:288: recipe for target 'awesomerc.lua' failed
make[3]: *** [awesomerc.lua] Error 127
CMakeFiles/Makefile2:5478: recipe for target 'CMakeFiles/generate_awesomerc.dir/all' failed
make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/generate_awesomerc.dir/all] Error 2
Makefile:151: recipe for target 'all' failed
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
Makefile:14: recipe for target 'cmake-build' failed
make: *** [cmake-build] Error 2

Please help me fix

Hi! Thanks for creating these instructions. Unfortunately, I've followed the instructions for installing Awesome from git and it doesn't show up on my login screen beside other DEs and WMs. However, when I run awesome --version, it gives me the most up to date version of awesome. Any ideas of what could be going on?

Most probably issues with awesome.desktop file. PFA link for reference :
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/125532/awesome-not-showing-up-in-gdm

Ah, yes. There appears to be no awesome.desktop file. What command should I execute when creating one?

@varlevi https://askubuntu.com/questions/408149/awesome-does-not-create-listing-in-gdm

Thanks. I have created the file, just using the command awesome as the execution and it now appears in the menu and I can use it to log in!