HowTo install Avant Window Navigator (AWN) in Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)
Avant Window Navigator (Awn) is a dock-like bar which sits at the bottom of the screen. It has support for launchers, task lists, and third party applets.The Awn project is the development of the ‘dock', avant-window-navigator, and its corresponding shared library ‘libawn', which is used to develop applets.
Note :- The Avant Window Navigator depends on compiz before installing Avant Window Navigator you need to make sure you have desktop effects enabled and without this you should not go through the trouble of installing Avant Window Navigator.
Thanks to Marius for this
First you need to edit the /etc/apt/sources.list file using the following command
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
add the following two lines
For Hardy Users
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/reacocard-awn/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/reacocard-awn/ubuntu hardy main
For Gutsy Users
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/reacocard-awn/ubuntu gutsy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/reacocard-awn/ubuntu gutsy main
For Feisty Users
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/reacocard-awn/ubuntu feisty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/reacocard-awn/ubuntu feisty main
Save and exit the file.
Update the source list using the following command
sudo aptitude update
Install Avant Window Navigator (AWN) in Ubuntu
sudo aptitude install avant-window-navigator-bzr awn-core-applets-bzr
This will complete the installation
You can now start AWN from Applications->Accessories->Avant Window Navigator
AWN Bar
Once it is running, you can right click on the bar that it opens up, and choose preferences to set all of the different things that you want AWN to handle
Hey!
It seems that the tux server (the user) is not available anymore. Do you have any other resources???
Great site btw!
Thx Markus
EDIT: the package is available in the backports! Just add this line to the sources.list
deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-backports restricted main multiverse universethen proceed as written above.
I keep on getting ‘libpango’ errors each time I come to the final command:
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Reading extended state information
Initialising package states… Done
Building tag database… Done
The following packages are BROKEN:
avant-window-navigator-bzr awn-core-applets-bzr libawn-bzr
The following NEW packages will be automatically installed:
python-libawn-bzr
The following packages have been kept back:
compiz compiz-core compiz-fusion-plugins-extra compiz-gnome
compiz-plugins hpijs hplip hplip-data libdecoration0 libpoppler-glib2
libpoppler2 libtheora0 ntfs-3g poppler-utils
The following NEW packages will be installed:
python-libawn-bzr
0 packages upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 14 not upgraded.
Need to get 2976kB of archives. After unpacking 11.3MB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
awn-core-applets-bzr: Depends: libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.18.3) but 1.18.2-0ubuntu1 is installed.
avant-window-navigator-bzr: Depends: libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.18.3) but 1.18.2-0ubuntu1 is installed.
libawn-bzr: Depends: libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.18.3) but 1.18.2-0ubuntu1 is installed.
Resolving dependencies…
Unable to resolve dependencies! Giving up…
Abort.
Do you have any ideas? I’m using a fresh installation of Ubuntu Gutsy
try to run the following command and check
sudo apt-get -f install
Hei, it’s work!!!!
First help file for installing AWN which working.
Thanks!!!!
hei i have the same problem but the second command you get doesn’t work… any other ideas?
it’s written in italian 😉
…I seguenti pacchetti sono DIFETTOSI:
avant-window-navigator-bzr awn-core-applets-bzr
libawn-bzr
I seguenti pacchetti NUOVI (NEW) saranno automaticamente installati:
python-libawn-bzr
I seguenti pacchetti NUOVI (NEW) saranno installati:
python-libawn-bzr
0 pacchetti aggiornati, 4 installati, 0 da rimuovere e 0 non aggiornati.
È necessario prelevare 2976kB di archivi. Dopo l’estrazione, verranno occupati 11,3MB.
I seguenti pacchetti hanno dipendenze non soddisfatte:
awn-core-applets-bzr: Dipende: libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.18.3) ma 1.18.2-0ubuntu1 è installato.
avant-window-navigator-bzr: Dipende: libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.18.3) ma 1.18.2-0ubuntu1 è installato.
libawn-bzr: Dipende: libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.18.3) ma 1.18.2-0ubuntu1 è installato.
Resolving dependencies…
Impossibile risolvere le dipendenze. Ricerca abbandonata.
Uscita.
stesteste@stesteste-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get -f instal
E: Operazione non valida instal
stesteste@stesteste-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get -f install
Lettura della lista dei pacchetti in corso… Fatto
Generazione dell’albero delle dipendenze in corso
Reading state information… Fatto
0 aggiornati, 0 installati, 0 da rimuovere e 0 non aggiornati.
Hi, i have a little problem.It seems to be that both server are no longer available, could anybody write here another tux server?
Reading state information… Hotovo
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states… Hotovo
Building tag database… Hotovo
Couldn’t find any package whose name or description matched “avant-window-navigator-bzr”
No candidate version found for awn-core-applets-bzr
The following packages have been automatically kept back:
amarok-xine audacious-plugins libxine1 libxine1-ffmpeg
The following packages have been kept back:
amarok audacious compiz-core compiz-fusion-plugins-extra compiz-gnome
compiz-plugins libpoppler-glib2 mplayer ntfs-3g
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 13 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Writing extended state information… Hotovo
?tu seznamy balÃk?… Hotovo
Vytvá?Ãm strom závislostÃ
Reading state information… Hotovo
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states… Hotovo
Building tag database… Hotovo
How can I install it for hardy. My gedit shows this on awn. I installed it from some source and tick the box to start with login. but its not. Why ?
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/awn-testing/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/awn-testing/ubuntu hardy main
When i type this command, wget http://download.tuxfamily.org/syzygy42/reacocard.asc, it says the 404 can’t be found. Is it a typo, or does it not exist anymore?
It doesnt exist anymore: http://download.tuxfamily.org/syzygy42/index.html
just follow instructions at new page!
@Fumky
Thanks for your comment.I have updated the source list with launchpad ppa
hello there… nice articles… It works with my hardy… Keep posting…
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Very helpful, thanks!
hey, i have tried to go through the steps but it cannot find the file when i go to install it, is there another location i can use?
i new to linux, so if you could explain it in nub terms that would be great 🙂
its been updated.
sudo apt-get install avant-window-navigator