Xmonad/Installing xmonad

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After installing, you'll have an xmonad binary on your system. From there, you'll need to wire xmonad up to your login manager.

Linux

Arch

 $ pacman -S xmonad         # for the core package
 $ pacman -S xmonad-contrib # for the contrib package

See xmonad on ArchWiki for more info.

Ubuntu

 $ apt-get install xmonad                     # for the xmonad binary
 $ apt-get install libghc6-xmonad-dev         # to allow configuration through xmonad.hs
 $ apt-get install libghc6-xmonad-contrib-dev # for all of the contrib modules

Note: On Hardy Heron and earlier, the libghc6-x11-dev package was compiled without Xinerama support. This means that if you want multi-monitor support, you will either need to upgrade to Intrepid Ibez or compile xmonad (and the Haskell X11 library on which it depends) from tarball.