Enlightenment Desktop environment

Enlightenment and EFL Debian official packages are outdated. In this part, the installation for Debian is done from sources like in the Get EFL installed tutorial.

The following part provides a script and shows how to install Enlightenment and Terminology with their dependencies on Debian. The script below can be easily adapted for Elementary.

Install dependencies

sudo aptitude install \ 
  make gcc bison flex gawk subversion automake autoconf doxygen\ 
  check autotools-dev autoconf-archive autopoint libtool gettext \ 
  libpam0g-dev libfreetype6-dev libpng12-dev zlib1g-dev  libjpeg-dev\ 
  libdbus-1-dev luajit libluajit-5.1-dev libx11-dev libxcursor-dev\ 
  libxrender-dev libxrandr-dev libxfixes-dev libxdamage-dev\ 
  libxcomposite-dev libxss-dev libxp-dev libxext-dev libxinerama-dev 

sudo aptitude install \ 
  libxkbfile-dev libxtst-dev libxcb1-dev libxcb-shape0-dev\ 
  libxcb-keysyms1-dev libpulse-dev libsndfile1-dev  libudev-dev\ 
  libblkid-dev libmount-dev libgstreamer1.0-dev libtiff5-dev libgif-dev\ 
  curl libssl-dev libspectre-dev libpoppler-dev librsvg2-dev\ 
  libraw-dev libxinerama-dev git libfribidi-dev libcogl-gles2-dev\ 
  libbullet-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev libvlc-dev 

sudo aptitude install \
  libpoppler-cpp-dev

Install e17

sudo aptitude install e17

Build new version

Copy the source code of the shell script below in a file called build_enlight.sh.

#!/bin/bash 
  
set -e 
# Target directory 
PREFIX="/usr/local" 
  
# List of the needed packages 
# To adapt to your needs 
PROJECTS="efl emotion_generic_players evas_generic_loaders enlightenment" 
  
# Download url 
SITE=" http://git.enlightenment.org/core/" 
OPT="--prefix=$PREFIX --disable-systemd" 
  
PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$PREFIX/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH" 
PATH="$PREFIX/bin:$PATH" 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$PREFIX/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" 
LOG="installe.log" 
rm -f $LOG      # Delete precedent log file 
touch $LOG      # Create a log file 
date >> $LOG    # Add current date 
  
# Download and compile each module 
for PROJ in $PROJECTS; do 
    # Cloning 
    if [ ! -d $PROJ ]; then 
        git clone $SITE$PROJ.git $PROJ 
    fi 
    # Go building and installing 
    cd $PROJ* 
    make clean distclean || true 
    ./autogen.sh $OPT 
    make -j4
    sudo make install 
    cd .. 
    sudo ldconfig 
    echo $PROJ" is installed" >> $LOG 
done 
  
#Optionnal Terminology 
git clone http://git.enlightenment.org/apps/terminology.git 
cd terminology 
./autogen.sh $OPT 
make -j4
sudo make all install 
cd .. 
sudo ldconfig 
  
# Delete all downloaded files and compile traces 
rm -rf e* 
  
# Create the menu entry of Enlightenment for gdm, kdm or liqhtdm 
sudo ln -s /usr/local/share/xsessions/enlightenment.desktop /usr/share/xsessions/ 

This script clones the repositories, builds and installs the EFL libraries, then builds and installs Terminology. Finally, it creates the link to launch enlightenment in the display manager.

Set the script executable:

chmod ug+x build_enlight.sh 

Then, execute the script. Once done, you can reboot and choose Enlightenment as a window manager.

Terminology (Option)

git clone http://git.enlightenment.org/apps/terminology.git
cd terminology
./autogen.sh $OPT
make -j4
sudo make all install
cd .. 
sudo ldconfig

Delete all downloaded files and compile traces

rm -rf e*

Create the menu entry of Enlightenment for gdm, kdm or liqhtdm

sudo aptitude install lightdm
sudo mv /usr/share/xsessions/enlightenment.desktop /usr/share/xsessions/enlightenment17.desktop
sudo ln -sf /usr/local/share/xsessions/enlightenment.desktop /usr/share/xsessions/

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