Installation on Ubuntu and other Debian based distros

[OpenSaned]

I have tried for two straight days to make this yet I've had problems with either with the wrong version lua or with liblua.so.5.4 something else. I have tried to manually build awesome and lua but still the problems remain
Has anyone even tried to install it ubuntu or debian?

Any help or comments are appreciated.

[Deathemonic]

isn't there a awesomewm build for debian base distros

make package
sudo dpkg -i awesome-x.y.z.deb

and the full build process on debian

sudo apt build-dep awesome
git clone https://github.com/awesomewm/awesome
cd awesome
make package
cd build
sudo apt install ./*.deb

and here's the list of dependencies: https://awesomewm.org/apidoc/documentation/10-building-and-testing.md.html

for the lua version you need to install lua 5.1.0 or above or install luajit

[Deathemonic]

but there's also the modules dependencies need to be installed

[lowrank]

@OpenSaned You need to rebuild the lilua_pam.so by yourself, it is in modules/lockscreen/lib, the prebuilt .so file is with lua.5.4.so, you need to recompile it from the PAM git, you may have to install the dependencies.