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How-to for installing AWN, and Affinity (a search tool)

October 4, 2007 in How Tos,Open Source Applications,Ubuntu Desktop with 4 Comments

Since I just posted how to install compiz fusion, I felt its appropriate to give a how-to for installing Avant Window Manager, my favorite linux desktop application.

Edit your /etc/apt/sources.list and add these lines to the bottom:

## Avant Window Navigator
deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/syzygy42/ feisty avant-window-navigator
deb-src http://download.tuxfamily.org/syzygy42/ feisty avant-window-navigator

Then do this in a terminal:

wget http://download.tuxfamily.org/syzygy42/8434D43A.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Now to install the stable AWN version do

For AWN BZR do :
sudo apt-get install avant-window-navigator-bzr

You can install more applets for AWN by doing:
sudo apt-get install awn-core-applets-bzr

The Affinity in this repo requires Tracker to work properly:
sudo apt-get install tracker

Then run:
sudo apt-get install affinity-svn

***  UPDATED *****

1. Go to System -> Administration -> Software Sources and enter your password when asked.

2. A new window appears, click the second tab “Third-Party Software”, then click the ‘Add’ button and paste the following lines (one by one):

3.

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/awn-testing/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/awn-testing/ubuntu hardy main
4. Now click the ‘Close’ button of the main window. It will ask if you want to reload the information about available software. Click ‘Reload’ and wait for the Software Sources window to close.
5. Open a terminal (Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal) and paste the following command:
sudo apt-get install awn-manager-trunk awn-extras-applets-trunk

Hit the “Y” key when asked, and complete the installation. Close the terminal window and start the AWN dock from Applications -> Accessories -> Avant Window Navigator.

No need for a “fucking” key now.

4 Responses to “How-to for installing AWN, and Affinity (a search tool)”

  1. Jason October 11, 2008 at 10:45 am #

    the key is fucking missing

  2. art November 17, 2008 at 10:30 pm #

    dude you are the man….finaly it work after 2 days searching for the rigt codes thanks

  3. thom December 23, 2008 at 6:59 am #

    thanks bro..
    It worked :)

    thanks. Nice post :)

  4. DD July 30, 2009 at 10:49 am #

    sudo apt-key adv –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com –recv-keys BF810CD5

    Best regards,
    DD

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