{"id":189,"date":"2008-04-17T23:54:29","date_gmt":"2008-04-18T03:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/?p=189"},"modified":"2008-04-17T23:54:29","modified_gmt":"2008-04-18T03:54:29","slug":"update-on-enlightenment-e17-for-debian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/2008\/04\/17\/update-on-enlightenment-e17-for-debian\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on Enlightenment E17 for Debian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Update:<\/em><\/strong> I&#8217;ve decided to use Falko&#8217;s packages, see my posting here:<br \/>\n<a title=\"E17 on Debian\" href=\"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/2008\/04\/24\/e17-on-debian\/\">http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/2008\/04\/24\/e17-on-debian\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you want to run E17 on Debian you have 4 choices (as of April 2008):<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wait<\/strong> for E17 packages to make it into Debian&#8217;s experimental repository:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sicherheitsschwankung.de\/post\/jan\/2008-03-31\/going-debconf-08\">http:\/\/sicherheitsschwankung.de\/post\/jan\/2008-03-31\/going-debconf-08<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a title=\"Debian E17\" href=\"http:\/\/alioth.debian.org\/projects\/pkg-e\/\">Debian E17 team<\/a> are in the process of loading packages into Debian experimental branch and they should be available in the near (or not so near) future.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Use<\/strong> the AlphafeMini repository for Debian Sid\/Unstable, created by <a title=\"Falko Schmidt's Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.alphagemini.org\/\">Falko Schmidt<\/a>. See <a title=\"Alphafemini.org page on E17\" href=\"http:\/\/xsm.alphagemini.org\/E17\/repository\/\">http:\/\/xsm.alphagemini.org\/E17\/repository\/<\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Maybe use <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dev.elivecd.org\/wiki\">Elive&#8217;s<\/a> repositories to install E17 as Elive is based on Debian, but this may cause other problems as Elive might be based on a older version of Debian (anyone know?).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Compile<\/strong> your own see <a title=\"Get-e.org's page on compiling E17 for Debian\" href=\"http:\/\/www1.get-e.org\/EFL_User_Guide\/English\/_pages\/2.2.html\">http:\/\/www1.get-e.org\/EFL_User_Guide\/English\/_pages\/2.2.html<\/a> for more details. But, you will have to uninstall these if you ever want to install a pre-packaged version, plus you&#8217;ll have to manually update packages yourself.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-8137689346830294\";\n\/* 468x60, created 12\/6\/08 enlightenment-post *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"8968112620\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\n\/\/ --><\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, Falko Schmidt is also a member of the team working on the E17 packages that are going into experimental, so using Falko&#8217;s packages might be the safest and easiest approach to get E17 on Debian. However, when packages are available in experimental (and eventually in Sid), you may need to <em>purge<\/em> Falko&#8217;s packages and <em>install<\/em> the Debian experimental ones.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to e-mail Falko to see if he has an opinion on this.<\/p>\n<p>Look for my latest posting on E17 as this information could be out-of-date:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"e17 tags at \/home\/mick\" href=\"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/category\/e17\/\">http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/category\/e17\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article originally posted at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/2008\/04\/17\/update-on-enlightenment-e17-for-debian\/\">http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/2008\/04\/17\/update-on-enlightenment-e17-for-debian\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: I&#8217;ve decided to use Falko&#8217;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&#8217;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 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/2008\/04\/17\/update-on-enlightenment-e17-for-debian\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Update on Enlightenment E17 for Debian<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,8,22],"tags":[71,86,99,190,218,223,237,242,246,285,390,463,521,547,607,630,631],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-debian-linux","category-e17","category-linux","tag-71","tag-alphafeminiorg","tag-april","tag-debian","tag-e17","tag-edeveloporg","tag-enlightenment","tag-experimental","tag-falko","tag-get-eorg","tag-linux","tag-packages","tag-repository","tag-sid","tag-unstable","tag-window-manager","tag-windowmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}