Ever since my original post on installing Enlightenment E17 on Debian and Ubuntu things have changed, such as the server that hosted the package repositories for both Debian & Ubuntu going off-line (supposedly temporarily but it’s been offline for almost 6 months).
Also, I’ve been having issues with E17 working correctly on my laptop running Ubuntu. [...]

Update, April 17th, 2008:
For a Debian update see:
http://timony.com/mickzblog/2008/04/17/update-on-enlightenment-e17-for-debian/
UPDATE, April 15th, 2008:
This post is out of date, see newer instructions for Ubuntu here:
http://timony.com/mickzblog/2008/04/15/e17-on-ubuntu-revisited/
UPDATE, April 14th 2008:
Edevelop.org is temporarily down as they move their server to a new datacenter, which means these instructions will not work for Debian until the server is back online. However, for Ubuntu [...]