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If you want to try it already, I’ve built Ubuntu .deb packages for Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala and 10.04 Lucid Lynx which you can download below.
1. Remove AWN if you installed it from the Ubuntu repositories (open Synaptic and search for “avant window navigator” and “awn” and remove all the packages), then add the testing Avant Window Navigator PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:awn-testing/ppa && sudo apt-get update(you have to remove AWN from the Ubuntu repositories because it has a different name: “avant-window-navigator” while the AWN package in the AWN testing PPA is called “avant-window-navigator-trunk”).
2. Then you can download and install the .debs using the following commands:
Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx 32bit:
wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/48828592/awn-lucid-32bit.tar.gz && tar -xvf awn-lucid-32bit.tar.gz && sudo dpkg -i *.debUbuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx 64bit:
wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/48828613/awn-lucid-64bit.tar.gz && tar -xvf awn-lucid-64bit.tar.gz && sudo dpkg -i *.debUbuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala 32bit:
wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/48828582/awn-karmic-32bit.tar.gz && tar -xvf awn-karmic-32bit.tar.gz && sudo dpkg -i *.debUbuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala 64bit:
wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/48828585/awn-karmic-64bit.tar.gz && tar -xvf awn-karmic-64bit.tar.gz && sudo dpkg -i *.deb3. And finally for any Ubuntu build (Karmic or Lucid / 32bit or 64bit), run the following command to make sure no dependencies are missing (such as libdesktop-agnostic*):
sudo apt-get -f installI’ve archived them since there were many packages. If you want to manually download the .debs from a test PPA where I’ve built the packages, click HERE.
Once installed, in Avant Window Navigator settings, on the Preferences tab select “Lucido” under “Style” and check the “Expand the panel” box. Then on the “Applets” tab, make sure you insert an expander (which can be found under the “Utility” category) between the AWN task manager and notification aread, main menu and so on.
If you didn’t have AWN from the AWN testing PPA installed before using the steps in this how-to, you should also install some applets using the following command:
sudo apt-get install awn-applets-c-core-trunk awn-applets-c-extras-trunk awn-applets-python-core-trunk awn-applets-python-extras-trunk