To build Openbox from CVS you need: A C Compiler (GNU GCC 3.2+ suggested) GNU Gettext GNU Autoconf 2.50+ GNU Automake 1.6+ GNU Libtool GNU Bison 1.875+ GNU Flex Xft2 library/headers (devel package) (http://www.fontconfig.org) Xlib library/headers (devel package) Pkg-Config I recommend the latest version of all these packages. Do the following to build and install Openbox in CVS: % ./bootstrap % ./configure % make all install Don't try running it from the src/ directory without installing, it won't work. It needs to be installed before it is run. The installed binary is 'openbox3'. ---- Here's the packages from Debian (sid): gcc gettext autoconf libtool bison flex libxft2-dev pkg-config ----