Howto Install Avant Window Navigator in ubuntu gutsy gibbon
Posted by admin on December 3rd, 2007 
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Preparing your system
First you need to make sure you have installed the following packages
sudo apt-get install build-essential automake1.9 autotools-dev bzr libxdamage-dev libxcomposite-dev libgnome2-common libgnome2-dev libgnome-desktop-dev libgnome-vfs-dev libgtk2.0-dev libwnck-dev libgconf2-dev libglib2.0-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev libgnomevfs2-0 libgnome-desktop-2 libgnome2-0 libwnck-common python-gtk2 python-gconf gnome-common python-dev python-gtk2-dev python-cairo-dev python-gnome2-dev
Download the Avant Window Navgator using the following command
bzr co http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~awn-core/awn/trunk avant-window-navigator
Now you have avant-window-navigator directory
cd avant-window-navigator
./autogen.sh
make
sudo make install
This will complete the installation.
Install Avant Window Navigator Applets
Preparing Your system
sudo apt-get install libgnome-menu-dev librsvg2-dev libgtop2-dev
Download the source using the following command
bzr co http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~awn-extras/awn-extras/trunk awn-extras
Install Avant Window Navigator Applets
cd awn-extras/awn-applets/awn-extras-applets/
./autogen.sh
make
sudo make install
This will complete the Avant Window Navigator Applets installation.
Run Avant Window Navigator
Goto Applications → Accessories → Avant Window Navigator
If you want to configure Avant Window Navigator, goto System → Preferences → Awn manager
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December 8th, 2007 at 11:45 am
Hey Guys,
I have a problem with some things…
I followed the guide, and then ran into some problems, but then googled it, and got some answers, yet I still have one problem…
Where above, it says you have to cd awn-extras/awn-applets/awn-core-applets/ I get the response
me@me-desktop:~$ cd awn-extras/awn-applets/awn-core-applets/
bash: cd: awn-extras/awn-applets/awn-core-applets/: No such file or directory
I also just searched my awn folders, but cannot find awn-core-applets…
Please help me…
Thanks,
Christiaan
December 9th, 2007 at 11:54 am
just ran into that problem as well, it should be:
cd awn-extras/awn-applets/awn-extras-applets/
December 9th, 2007 at 2:17 pm
Thanks…i got it working! Thanks!
December 10th, 2007 at 10:43 pm
does bzr needs extra config to pass through a proxy? because bzr co htt… stands on the terminal and does nothing
December 12th, 2007 at 9:31 am
Hey guys.. this is the problem i ran into .. i am a real noob to ubuntu.. pleeeease help..
me@me-desktop:~/awn-extras/awn-applets/awn-extras-applets$ make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
this command ran fine when i was installing awn .. but not on awn-extras..
this is what i have in awn-extras-applets
me@me-desktop:~/awn-extras/awn-applets/awn-extras-applets$ ls
acinclude.m4 config.h.in~ install-sh Makefile.am
aclocal.m4 config.log intltool-extract Makefile.in
AUTHORS config.sub intltool-extract.in missing
autogen.sh configure intltool-merge NEWS
autom4te.cache configure.ac intltool-merge.in po
ChangeLog COPYING intltool-update README
compile debian intltool-update.in src
config.guess depcomp libtool
config.h.in INSTALL ltmain.sh
.. thank you…
December 12th, 2007 at 7:44 pm
checking for DEPS… configure: error: Package requirements (gtk+-2.0
awn
libwnck-1.0
libglade-2.0
libgnome-menu
gnome-desktop-2.0
librsvg-2.0
libgtop-2.0
glib-2.0
dbus-1
dbus-glib-1
libsexy
gconf-2.0
gdk-2.0
gdk-pixbuf-2.0
libnotify
vte) were not met:
No package ‘libsexy’ found
No package ‘libnotify’ found
No package ‘vte’ found
Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.
Alternatively, you may set the environment variables DEPS_CFLAGS
and DEPS_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.
root@ryan-laptop:~/avant-window-navigator/awn-extras/awn-applets/awn-extras-applets# make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
root@ryan-laptop:~/avant-window-navigator/awn-extras/awn-applets/awn-extras-applets#
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I get the following error when trying to install the applets… i installed all the dependencies which were stated above, any solutions? thanks!
December 12th, 2007 at 7:59 pm
try to run the following command
sudo apt-get -f install
December 13th, 2007 at 9:48 pm
I have exactly the same problem and output as ryanaivey21. The sudo apt-get -f install does not solve the problem. Anyone an idea what this might be?
December 14th, 2007 at 12:47 pm
Sorry, I left out a line in the previous post. These two lines should be entered into the CLI:
sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/libawn.so.0 /usr/lib/libawn.so.0
sudo apt-get install libsexy-dev libnotify-dev libvte-dev
December 23rd, 2007 at 5:10 pm
anyone not finding target can
cd avant-window-navigator
then
./configure
then
sudo make install
December 28th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
I got the following problem. Did i do something wrong?
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0… yes
checking for DEPS… configure: error: Package requirements (gtk+-2.0
awn
libwnck-1.0
libglade-2.0
libgnome-menu
gnome-desktop-2.0
librsvg-2.0
libgtop-2.0
glib-2.0
dbus-1
dbus-glib-1
libsexy
gconf-2.0
gdk-2.0
gdk-pixbuf-2.0
libnotify
vte) were not met:
No package ‘awn’ found
Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.
Alternatively, you may set the environment variables DEPS_CFLAGS
and DEPS_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.
December 28th, 2007 at 2:51 pm
Sorry, solved it already thanx
January 24th, 2008 at 8:20 am
Thanks man, this program is AMAZING!
February 10th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Thanks a lot for the tut. Works like a charm & much lighter & more stable than Kiba-Dock. Thanks again.
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:12 pm
Thanks for the tut. Avnt is amazing. Thanks again from Chile.
April 9th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
After I use the following command: bzr co http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~awn-core/awn/trunk avant-window-navigator
The terminal show this:
bzr: ERROR: Unknown branch format: ‘Bazaar pack repository format 1 (needs bzr 0.92)\n’
Why?? What can I do??
Please help me!!
Thanks
Luciano
June 29th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
I have a problem installing AWN on my Mint 4…
When i write bzr co http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~awn-core/awn/trunk avant-window-navigator on the terminal i get this messege.
aleksander@aleksander-laptop:~$ bzr co http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~awn-core/awn/trunk avant-window-navigator
bzr: ERROR: Unknown branch format: ‘Bazaar pack repository format 1 (needs bzr 0.92)\n’
What should i do?