{"id":187,"date":"2008-04-15T23:10:22","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T03:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/?p=187"},"modified":"2008-04-15T23:10:22","modified_gmt":"2008-04-16T03:10:22","slug":"e17-on-ubuntu-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/2008\/04\/15\/e17-on-ubuntu-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"e17 on Ubuntu Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ever since my original post<\/a> on installing Enlightenment E17<\/a> on Debian<\/a> and Ubuntu<\/a> 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).<\/p>\n

Also, I’ve been having issues with E17 working correctly on my laptop running Ubuntu. This is probably because of conflicts between old and new packages, and because E17 is still beta code.<\/p>\n

In this posting I’ll concentrate on installing or reinstalling E17 on Ubuntu 8.04<\/em> otherwise know as Hardy Heron<\/a>. You should be able to use the same instructions to install E17 on other recent versions of Ubuntu. I’ll also try and the same for installing E17 on Debian<\/a> at some point in the future.<\/p>\n

First,<\/strong> remove all existing traces of any previous E17 installs.<\/p>\n

sudo apt-get remove --purge e17 emodule* libevas* libefreet*<\/pre>\n
You’ll notice that I’ll use a mixture of apt-get and aptitude to remove and install packages. I’ve found that sometimes aptitude is a little too aggressive in removing packages, and sometime will remove package that I need. For instance when I started to remove E17, aptitude also wanted to remove xserver-xorg which would mean X wouldn’t work (no GUI<\/a>).<\/p>\n
Next,<\/strong> remove any old repositories for E17 from you sources.list. But, first make a back-up copy of the file:<\/p>\n
sudo cp \/etc\/apt\/sources.list \/etc\/apt\/sources.list.bak<\/pre>\n
Then, remove or comment out any other E17 repositories from the file, by editing the file with your favourite text editor. I normally use emacs:<\/p>\n
sudo emacs \/etc\/apt\/sources.list<\/pre>\n
Or if you don’t have X running and are doing this from a console:<\/p>\n
sudo emacs -nw \/etc\/apt\/sources.list<\/pre>\n
You can use # to comment out lines. Remove any references to edevelop.org or soulmachine.net .<\/p>\n
Then, <\/strong>add the dunnewinde.net repository, by adding the following lines:<\/p>\n
# dunnewind e17 repository for Ubuntu Hardy<\/pre>\n
deb http:\/\/e17.dunnewind.net\/ubuntu hardy e17<\/pre>\n
You can replace hardy with either gutsy or feisty if your running either of those versions of Ubuntu.<\/p>\n
Now<\/strong> your ready to install\/reinstall Enlightenment E17! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
sudo aptitude install e17<\/pre>\n
Or if you also want to play with a media player based on E17 libraries install eclair also.<\/p>\n
sudo aptitude install e17 eclair<\/pre>\n