I thought I’d start looking at using Debian’s experimental E17 packages. I commented out all other E17 repo’s from my source.list and installed the debian e17 package. It installs a minimal amount of related packages, and there doesn’t seem to be lot of e17 packages available in the experimental repo sudo aptitude install e17 Reading [...]

An interview with Rasterman on OSnews, founder of Enlightenment, on E17: http://www.osnews.com/story/19679 When will E17 be released? … does Rasterman have any timeframe in mind for the release of the final version of E17? His reply was to be expected – “No comment.” Smiley face included. The big blocker right now is a lack of [...]

Quickie install instructions: Add the following lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list: # repo from Falko Schmidt: deb http://debian.alphagemini.org/ unstable main This will also require you to have Debian’s unstable branch listed in your sources.list . If your have Enlightenment DR16 installed or any other versions of E17 installed you’ll need to uninstall them: sudo aptitude remove [...]

Update: I’ve decided to use Falko’s packages, see my posting here: http://timony.com/mickzblog/2008/04/24/e17-on-debian/ If you want to run E17 on Debian you have 4 choices (as of April 2008): Wait for E17 packages to make it into Debian’s experimental repository: http://sicherheitsschwankung.de/post/jan/2008-03-31/going-debconf-08 The Debian E17 team are in the process of loading packages into Debian experimental branch [...]

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 [...]

E17 Darkness Theme on Ubuntu: E17 Darkness Theme on Ubuntu with the menu highlighted: E17 Darkness theme with a wallpaper from vladstudio.com: Themes are available from get-e.org. The packages for Ubuntu come with Darkness and other themes, the Debian package appears to only come with the default theme. Look for my latest posting on E17 [...]

Update, April 17th, 2008: This post is out of date, for a Debian update see: http://timony.com/mickzblog/2008/04/17/update-on-enlightenment-e17-for-debian/ See newer instructions for Ubuntu here: http://timony.com/mickzblog/2008/04/15/e17-on-ubuntu-revisited/ Look for my latest postings on E17 as this information could be out-of-date: http://timony.com/mickzblog/category/e17/ UPDATE, April 14th 2008: Edevelop.org is temporarily down as they move their server to a new datacenter, which [...]