F9 E17 Installation

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Installation of E17 on Fedora 9 is fairly simple, and there are currently three options available:


In the first two cases, *almost* the exact same packages are available (the only two exceptions to this is that I will not be providing imlib2 or scrot, since they are available from Fedora Extras and are stable.

The final option is much more complicated since only a few of the base Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL) are currently in the Fedora Repository. The E17 Window Manager (Enlightenment) will hit the Fedora repository soon, but there is no guarentee that the packages will not conflict with the packages in the Kriehn Repository. I suggest using either E17 packages from one repository or the other, but not both. Once enough packages and functionality hit the Fedora Repository, I will begin phasing out the E17 packages here. For now, however, consider the Kriehn Repository to provide the "testing" or "bleeding edge" version of E17. If you can think of a way to solve this problem gracefully, please send me an e-mail.

Libraries	Applications	Modules
imlib2	e (enlightenment)	alarm
edb	entrance	bling
eet	eclair*	calendar
evas	evfs	cpu
ecore	edje_viewer	deskshow
efreet	edje_editor	echo
epeg	elicit	efm_nav
embryo	elitaire	efm_path
edje	emphasis*	emu
epsilon	empower	execwatch
esmart*	emprint	flame
emotion*	engycad	forecasts
engrave	entrance_edit_gui	iiirk
etk*	entropy	language*
etk_extra	ephoto	mail
ewl	estickies	mem
exml	exhibit	mixer
enhance	expedite	moon
e_dbus	exquisite	mpdule
	extrackt	net
	e_phys	news
	(enthrall*)	notification
	(rage)	penguins
	scrot*	photo
		rain
		screenshot
		slideshow
		snow
		taskbar
		tclock
		uptime
		weather
		winselector
		wlan

NOTE:  For those of you who are interested in some additional backgrounds and themes for Enlightenment and Entrance, I have 3 additional RPM packages that I have developed. See the RPM installation section for details.

The Kriehn Repository

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Since Didier Casse has decided to retire his repository due to time constraints, I have decided to step in and host E17 RPMs myself. And as previously mentioned, I will be hosting the exact same packages (almost) that are available from Brian Miculcy's easy_17.sh script.

The upshot of this is that Enlightenment is now a piece of cake to install. First, make sure that you have both the kriehn and livna repositories setup. Then use yum to install the packages and development libraries:

Press 'y' when prompted to install the programs and any additional dependencies. There will probably be at least a few dependencies from livna will have to be installed in addition to the aforementioned packages.

Backgrounds and Themes:  If you want to install some additional backgrounds and themes for Enlightenment and Entrance, install the following:
Press 'y' when prompted to install the programs. (The Enlightenment backgrounds and startup .edj files will be available to you from the Configuration Panel (under Appearance -> Wallpaper and Appearance -> Startup). In both cases, click on the System button to see them.

To change the Entrance theme, you will have to use the sudo entrance_edit --theme [theme].edj command. The themes are installed in /usr/share/entrance/themes.)

Enlightenment is now setup! You may now skip over the easy_17.sh sections, and move on to the Run Enlightenment section at the bottom of the page.

easy_17.sh

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NOTE:  I have added a lot of functionality to Enlightenment that is not guaranteed to be available if you are using the easy_17.sh script without installing a large number of additional development packages. In other words, if you want to guarantee the largest amount of functionality possible using Enlightenment, then I strongly suggest that you install the RPMs.

Brian Miculcy has written a wonderful little script called easy_17.sh (see Brian's projects page). The script automatically downloads the current snapshot of Enlightenment from the CVS repository, and installs all of the libraries, applications, and modules for E17. It also accommodates command line arguments for changing the installation path, skipping certain packages, setting autogen and nice options, etc.  There are three phases to the script:


1. Install Package Dependencies
The packages containing the * after them (see the Table above) require some additional development libraries that are not included in the base install of Fedora, but are present in the Fedora repository. The minimum package dependencies includes the following:

Package	Dependency
emotion	xine-lib-devel
esmart	libtool-ltdl-devel
etk	gettext-libs gettext-devel
eclair	taglib-devel
emphasis	libmpd libmpd-devel
enthrall	libtheora-devel
scrot	giblib giblib-devel imlib2-devel
language	libxkbfile-devel
Eterm*	libast eterm

*The Eterm package is not a package that is installed or compiled by default, but it is useful to install anyway. All of the packages can be installed using yum:
Press 'y' when prompted to install the programs.

2. Download easy_e17.sh and the CVS Repository Files for E17
To use the script, the first thing that must be done is to download it, which can be found at:


Scroll down to the Files: section, and download easy_17.sh. The current version at the time of this writing is V 1.1.5. Once it is downloaded, change into the Download directory and adjust the permissions so that the script can be executed directly:
Before executing easy_17.sh, the script looks for a configuration file called ~/.easy_e17.conf. It is here that we can set things such as the download path for the CVS repository files, the installation directory, etc. I prefer to download the files to /usr/local/src/e17, and install E17 to /usr/local/, so create a ~/.easy_e17.conf file and add the following information:
Save and exit. Next create the installation directory:
I like to keep the script in a ~/linux/e17/install directory, so let's create one now and move the script over to it:
Next, change into the install directory:
We are ready to execute the script, but before we install E17, let's take a look at some of the options that it provides:
You should see a list of Actions and Options that are available to the script. To install E17, we'll use the '-i' option, but before doing so, I want to just download the files first because there are a some changes that we are going to have to make to a couple of the source files. To download the repository files, use the "--cvsupdate" option:
Depending upon your connection speed, it may take a while to download all of the files.

3. Compile and Install Enlightenment
We are now ready to compile and install Enlightenment. Change back into the directory containing the script:
Execute the script using the '-i' option to install E17:
Compiling and installing all of the libraries, applications, and modules will take a while. If there seems to be a problem with one of the packages that absolutely prevents the script from executing properly, you can use the "--skip=[package]" option to skip a particular package. But if it is one of the libraries, or e itself that will not compile, then you will have to wait until the bugs get worked out in the CVS repository before trying to compile it again. Typically, should should only take a day or two.

Once E17 is installed, you can execute the script periodically using the '-u' option to update any packages that need to be recompiled. Sometimes, however, significant changes will be made to the CVS repository and new conflicts will arise. Old files in your directories can be deleted with the '-f' option. For example, if you wanted to update your packages and remove any old files, execute the following:
And if you want to completely re-compile, execute the following instead:
4. Integrate Enlightenment into the Fedora Environment
With Enlightenment successfully installed, the next task is to integrate the windows manager into the Fedora environment. If you are not planning on using entrance to do this, then all we have to do is create a link in /usr/share/xsessions to the location of the enlightenment.desktop file so that the Gnome Login Manager (gdm) is aware that there is a new Windows Manager present:
Note:  The old problem of Entrance looking in /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession instead of /etc/X11/xinit/Xsession has now been fixed, since they are now the same file (/etc/X11/xdm/Xsession is a soft link that points toward /etc/X11/xinit/Xsession).

Run Enlightenment

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Enlightenment is now setup and ready for use! To try it, logout of Gnome, and at the login screen click on "Session". Next click on "Enlightenment". Now type in your username and password. Hit Enter and you should successfully see Enlightenment launch!

I am going to avoid going into details about configuring Enlightenment until the E17 General Configuration page, but if you want to get a jump start, left click the mouse, scroll down to Configuration when the Main menu pops up, click on Configuration Panel, and start making changes.

The next thing to discuss is how to setup Enlightenment's login screen application (entrance), which is quite a bit trickier than what we went through here. To do this, see the Entrance Setup page.