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Install Enlightenment E17 in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic koala

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Linux tutorials

Enlightenment, also known simply as E, is a stacking window manager for the X Window System which can be used alone or in conjunction with a desktop environment such as GNOME or KDE. Enlightenment is also a whole suite of libraries to help you create beautiful user interfaces with much less work than doing it the old fashioned way and fighting with traditional toolkits, not to mention a traditional window manager. It covers uses from small mobile devices like phones all the way to powerful multi-core desktops.

The latest stable version of Enlightenmen is E16. The actual development Release 17 of the Enlightenment window manager represents an evolution into the next generation of desktop environments:

The desktop shell. DR17 will provide integration between files and your environment in a seamless manner while encompassing a graphically rich and flexible architecture. It will not compete with GNOME or KDE, but be a completely new way of visualizing your desktop, based around the EFL which was built from the ground up for this task.”

Install Enlightenment on Ubuntu


1- Add repositories :

a- First open the sources.list and add the repositories :

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list 
  • For Ubuntu 9.10 karmic koala :


Add this line at the end of the sources.list

deb http://packages.enlightenment.org/ubuntu karmic main extras

There is another repository for karmic but doesen`t contain the e17 package yet(I tried to install e17 and i get just the message no package was found), if you want to install e16 version on ubuntu karmic you can use this ppa :

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:e17-packaging/ppa 
  • For Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty jackalope :

add these 2 lines to the end of the list :

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/e17-packaging/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main 
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/e17-packaging/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main 
 


2- Add the verification Key :

wget http://packages.enlightenment.org/repo.key -O - | sudo apt-key add -
 

3- Now refresh and install :

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install e17  xorg

Install software (Thanks to kappa962):

sudo apt-get install  wicd lxterminal gnome-icon-theme mousepad emodule-places emodule-tclock 
emodule-calendar unrar rar xarchiver gpicview

 

sudo apt-get install firefox thunar vlc -R

xorg and e17 are, obviously, the essential packages for this installation.
Install ecomorph-e17 instead of e17 for the compiz eye candy.
wicd for network/wifi management. I would use exalt (package name:emodule-exalt), but I can’t get it to work. At all.
lxterminal as a lightweight terminal program that is significantly better than xterm
mousepad : Is for a full-featured, lightweight text editor. scite and Leafpad are two other options
gnome-icon-theme : Is necesary in order for the icons in the menus and in Thunar to look right.
xarchiver is a nice, lightweight program for working with compressed files; rar and unrar are needed for it to work properly
gpicview is a nice, lightweight picture viewer
emodule-places, emodule-tclock, and emodule-calendar are just three extra emodules that I really like to use.
The -R option is important for Firefox. Otherwise it installs piles and piles of gnome-related packages. Another,
thunar is my choice for a full-featured, lightweight file manager
vlc is, of course, the standard linux media player

Modify this list to suit your needs. Other packages you might want to install:
abiword: lightweight word processor. It’s still a pretty bulky program, so consider using the -R option with aptitude, which will cut the installed size in half.
galculator: basic calculator program.


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Mel Kham

Founder of Unixmen, Living in Amsterdam. Am working in my free time to help people to understand the Opensource and to explain them in easy way how to make the fist steps to the the light. Working day and night with my Co-founder Zinovsky to keep this website live even with less resources.
  • Enamul

    Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net karmic/main Packages
    Err http://ppa.launchpad.net karmic/main Packages
    404 Not Found
    Fetched 122kB in 21s (5,725B/s)
    W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/e17-packaging/ppa/ubuntu/dists/karmic/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found

    E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

  • aaron voreck

    I was wondering if there needs to be an update to this to try on the most recent version on unbuntu?

    thanx,
    -Aaron

  • http://ubuntumanual.org/ Thomas

    Some important features of E17 are Low resource consumption,Highly Responsive,Very Elegant, Efficient, Keeps the CPU far more cooler than any other DE,etc. Check it out Here

  • http://ubuntumanual.org/ Thomas

    Enlightenment E17 or DR17 is a desktop environment that can serve as both the window manager and a desktop environment at the same time in your OS. It is an advancement on E16 which is a much more lean and simple window manager. Check it out its features [url=http://ubuntumanual.org/posts/273/e17-enlighten-your-desktop]Here[/url]

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Greate tutorial :)

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Just one thing:

What about pep8 in your python code ? How can you give ‘tutorials’ on quite popular website, of such a bad quality ?

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