Create a Enlightenment (E17) SVN PPA?

**Frogs Hair** · September 19th, 2011

My recommendation, start with bodhi and get good with E17. Then work on doing it on oneiric or something else. Bodhi still gives you much to customize and you can make it easy or very personal and detailed.

I looked into Bodhi (10.04 Based) before installing the core packages from the software center . I have no interest in triple booting , so the core packages or PPA work the best for me . I do like using E17 from time to time , but who knows when it will be finished . That makes it hard for me to consider it as a contender for longterm use .

**janosimas** · October 3rd, 2011

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Update:
I reinstalled my system and this e17, everything is working fine. I have no idea of what happened before.

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Hi,
I installed this e17 and I'm having a really bad experience :-/

I was using the e17 package from the repository and upgraded to this version. When I first started enlightenment after this there was a lot of errors of modules that I assumed was because differences of the versions but...

small problem:
engage and "start everything aspell" give some error of date of configuration.

medium problem:
- I cant access my configuration dialogs that need root access like: "advanced settings" in "user and groups"
- Chrome doesn't know anymore with what programs it open files like downloaded pdf

BIG problem:
no sound, somehow after this upgrade I'm out of the groups pulse and pulse-access. I'm not sure what more may have happened and including my user in these groups does not solve the problem.

All of these problem also occur in ubuntu classic (gnome) except my configuration setting that work just fine.

anyway, everything else worked just fine, a lot better than the old package. I'm glad someone did this ppa.

**Meizirkki** · October 21st, 2011

Thank you so much for this repository merlwiz79!

packages.enlightenment.org is horribly outdated, bodhi has no 64-bit packages (and I can't find their sources..?), plus I've been getting odd build error with easy_e17 script ever since upgrading to 11.10

You saved me from lot of trouble, thanks

**rojaasensei** · November 6th, 2011

I'm confused. I would like to try enlightenment.

Do I install the e17 package from the software centre first and then install the packages from the ppa?

I ask as there seems to be no "desktop" in the ppa.

**Frogs Hair** · November 6th, 2011

Originally Posted by rojaasensei

I'm confused. I would like to try enlightenment.

Do I install the e17 package from the software centre first and then install the packages from the ppa?

I ask as there seems to be no "desktop" in the ppa.

Either one or the other , the PPA will give you a better E17 experience . The core packages in the software center will give you an idea of what E17 is like and are easy to remove .

I don't know if the PPA in this thread is still active so check it out first . There is an active PPA .

Code:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hannes-janetzek/enlightenment-svn
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install e17

If you have the resources and time try this out .http://bodhilinux.com/

**rojaasensei** · November 6th, 2011

Thank you.
I did look into Bodhi, downloaded the ISO.

Found out with the live CD and the forum that my Broadband (Broadcom) isn't very compatible

**plaid** · February 1st, 2012

Thanks for doing this Merlwiz. I've been using Enlightenment since I discovered it on my very first Slackware distro a decade ago and it has been a pain to keep Enlightenment up to date.

**plaid** · February 3rd, 2012

hmm.. I installed your packages and tried starting enlightenment, but my system hangs with no output, so I have to log into a virtual terminal and kill enlightenment. I'm going to compile my own enlightenment now and see if that works.
-- Plaid

**Tux Aubrey** · April 28th, 2012

I don't know if the PPA in this thread is still active so check it out first . There is an active PPA .

Code:

Code:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hannes-janetzek/enlightenment-svn
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install e17

Is anyone else using the hannes-janetzek ppa? I have it working fine on 11.10, apart from some of the module updates being a day or so behind the core API.

It has not worked for me at all on 12.04 yet.

Anyone with different experiences? The hannes-janetzek ppa does not seem to be supported online anywhere and it might be worth opening a thread for it here if there is interest.