How can I install lightdm-webkit2-greeter?

I want to install this: https://github.com/Antergos/web-greeter

I'm not sure how to use the given OBS Repo to install the package. I've done quite a bit of googling and I'm at a loss.

Solution 1:

Well, that OBS repo is perplexing to me as well. I would build from source:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python3-whither
sudo apt-get install liblightdm-gobject-dev
sudo apt-get install python3-gi
git clone https://github.com/Antergos/web-greeter.git /tmp/greeter
cd /tmp/greeter
sudo make install

Solution 2:

For people from 2019+ who are coming across this thread, I solved it by installing it from source too, however you have to get the dependencies as follows:

• Install Whither (another package by Antegros)

  • Install its dependencies:

    # Make sure you have pip installed (python's package manager)
    sudo apt install python-pip
    
    # Install PyQt5 WebEngine
    sudo apt install python3-pyqt5.qtwebengine
    

  • Install using pip (this didn't work for me)

    sudo pip install whither
    

  • Install from source

    git clone https://github.com/Antergos/whither.git
    cd whither
    sudo python3 setup.py install
    

• Install other dependencies:

  sudo apt-get install liblightdm-gobject-1-dev
  sudo apt-get install python3-gi
  

• Finally install lightdm-webkit2-greeter

  git clone https://github.com/Antergos/web-greeter.git
  cd web-greeter
  sudo make install
  

Themes can be found at /usr/share/web-greeter/themes

Main Config file is at /etc/lightdm/web-greeter.yml

Enable lightdm to use web-greeter by editing/creating a file at /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/60-web-greeter.conf as follows:

[Seat:*]
greeter-session=web-greeter