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Enlightenment E16 or E17.

Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 3:45 pm
by HandyGandy_
I've just installed LMDE-64.
One thing I've wanted to do is play with enlightenment.

I see e16 is in the debian repositories and e17 is not.
Is there that much of a difference between e16 and e17 that I should make the effort to get e17?

If so is there a repository out there with e17 for debian/amd64 on it?

Thanks.

Re: Enlightenment E16 or E17.

Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 5:48 pm
by MALsPa
As I recall, E16 is quite a bit different from E17. I do have E17 currently installed, but it's in PCLinuxOS.

Looks like E17 is in sid:

http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=e17

I don't know if that helps you with getting it in LMDE, though.

Re: Enlightenment E16 or E17.

Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 6:00 pm
by asymmetros
Do not try E16. It 's not worth the trouble. E17 is in unstable and will eventually hit wheezy some day. Speaking for myself, i have installed it by following utsuwa's tip:
Look here
http://xsm.alphagemini.org/E17/repository/

I tried it with Crunchbang 10 Startler alpha 2 (which is based on debian). Works great, no problems so far.

It is better than compiling it yourself.
(original post from http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 5&start=40

E17 is lightweigtht, fast and nice too.