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Avant window navigator on Ubuntu.

February 28th, 2008 pvital Leave a comment Go to comments

First of all, I’d like to say that I am a happy Debian user, and I will not change it for any other distro – I have my reasons.

At work I use Debian testing (lenny) in a ThinkPad T42 as my official operating system. Additional to Debian I installed the LTC internal Linux distro, based on Ubuntu Gutsy, that I use as a “security system”, if some IBM application decides not work on Debian. At home, I have a desktop with Debian stable (etch).

After read a VentureCake post about “Using Avant without Gnome panel“, I decided to look closer this new window manager (new for me, because I’ve never heard about it before). As my first step, I looked the Avant window Manger official site to learn more. There, I saw that there are not official and stable (at least for me) packages of avant for Debian. So, my unique option was try it in Ubuntu.

Once Ubuntu is a son of Debian, it was very easy install avant (I love apt :-D ). First, I added the following lines in my /etc/apt/sources.list file:

  1. deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/syzygy42 gutsy avant-window-navigator
  2. deb-src http://download.tuxfamily.org/syzygy42 gutsy avant-window-navigator

Then, I had to download the repository key:

  1. wget -q http://download.tuxfamily.org/syzygy42/reacocard.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -

After that, it was time to install the packages:

  1. sudo apt-get update
  2. sudo apt-get install avant-window-navigator-bzr awn-core-applets-bzr

OK. The avant was installed!!! Once installed, I gone to Applications → Accessories → Avant Window Navigator, and the little dock bar was running. I did some modifications on its default configurations (System → Preferences → Awn manager).

So, my screen now have a nice dock bar:

Avant window navigator on Ubuntu (screenshot)

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  1. Mark Lee
    March 10th, 2008 at 19:12 | #1
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    Hi,

    I’m glad you’re enjoying Awn. There are two things I’d like to point out.

    Reacocard (the maintainer of the repository you’re referring to) has moved his repository to Launchpad, and so the repository URL(s) have changed.
    For more information, please see the following links:

    Official thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=385981
    Wiki guide: http://wiki.awn-project.org/DistributionGuides#Reacocard.27s_PPA

    Additionally, our resident Debian/Ubuntu packager, gilir, has successfully added Awn to the official Debian repository (although at the moment, the version is a little out-of-date): http://packages.debian.org/avant-window-navigator

    I hope that you continue to enjoy using Awn!

    -Mark (Awn/Awn Extras developer)

  1. March 11th, 2008 at 10:59 | #1
    ~pvital Blog » Avant window navigator on Ubuntu – update.