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Recently I’m trying Enlightenment, a light window manager. I’ve known this app for a long time, but only recently try to install it (I blame Dedi for tempting me :P ). I usually use GNOME. It’s virtually the only desktop environment I ever use. KDE isn’t up to my taste, and I rarely use XFCE anymore since my Xubuntu box has been monitor-less for a while.

The installation steps are the same as posted on Dedi’s blog, with some minor changes. I use old repo key because new repo key will give a GPG error. And since I’m using BlankOn Nanggar, I use packages for Jaunty.

1. Edit my sources list

$ sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

2. Add following line

deb http://packages.enlightenment.org/ubuntu jaunty main extras

3. Add repo key

wget http://packages.enlightenment.org/repo.key.old -O - | sudo apt-key add -

4. Update packages and install Enlightenment

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install e17

5. Log out and choose Enlightenment session

You can get additional theme, app and stuff for Enlightenment from http://e17-stuff.org/ and http://exchange.enlightenment.org/ (Thanks Dedi, for the link )

So, do you want enlightenment? (Hahaha, bad pun, I know )

Note: Ubuntu repository also got Enlightenment packages, but it’s still an e16 version.

At home, I’m using Ubuntu 8.04 for my main OS. Unfortunately, it’s not connected to internet. Whenever I need to install anything, I had to download it manually from Ubuntu repository. (Well, I also using BlankOn 5.0 at my workplace, but since BlankOn 5.0 is based on Ubuntu 9.04, I can’t just copy its packages in apt cache and copy them to my Hardy machine.)

Manual download has it own cons. Ubuntu repo website do lists the dependencies for a .deb package, but how do I know what’s the dependencies for the dependencies, or whether some of the dependencies are already installed or not?

This is where apt-web, a web-based .deb package finder application developed by mas Fajran “Iang” Iman Rusadi, came in. It helps me to know which packages I have to download and gives package URL on chosen repository mirrors for any specific release. For instance, if I want to install inkscape on Hardy, apt-web let me know that I only need to download two packages (inkscape & libmagick++10), either from Kambing, Buaya, UGM or other mirrors.

Neat, eh?

To try apt-web, you can visit http://apt.web.dahsy.at