On Sat, 05 Jan 2013 16:29:32 -0500
Chris Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
> I just borked a clean recent vanilla kubuntu (quantal?) system like
> so:
>
> | % add-apt-repository ppa:efl/trunk
> | % apt-get update
> | % apt-get upgrade
> | % apt-get install e17
>
> I logged out of my KDE/Plasma session, selected enlightenment from the
> lightdm menu, logged back in, and ran the e17 wizard making no changes
> to the defaults.
>
> That's where I noticed that I was missing my laptop's Wifi led.
>
> I wasn't expecting a notification, so I thought that this was just
> a matter of manually configuring the ConnMan (?) applet. So, I clicked
> on the icon in the Shelf, checked 'Wifi On', clicked 'Configure'...
>
> This caused a popup to be displayed with an ominous-looking
> exclamation mark in a triangle, and the following error message:
>
> | This module wants to execute an external application eConnMan that
> | does not exist. Please install EConnMan application."
>
> So, if the message really means what it says, it looks like whatever
> package should have installed EConnMan ('ConnMan' prefixed with an
> 'E') is missing.. 'optional', perhaps.. not pulled when I installed
> e17..?
>
> The KDE wifi stuff (network manager, I believe) having been removed by
> the e17 install and since I only have wifi internet at this point, I
> am stuck. I cannot just reinstall network manager and start over.
>
> Any suggestions how I could work around this..?
I know very little about *buntu/Debian, being a Fedora user, but I
can tell you that NetworkManager works just fine with E. Like
you, when I tried to configure ConnMan, I got the warning message
about needing EConnMan. So I have ConnMan disabled, and I use NM.
It requires that the systray module be loaded, but that's not a
problem.
The rest of your troubles makes me think that the Kubuntu
packaging for E got hosed somehow. Can you compile E17 and the
EFL yourself? I compile the EFL and E17 snapshots here, and
things generally work quite well. I didn't have to disable
anything in my normal Fedora installation to get E17 to work. I
can switch between E17, E16, or XFCE with no trouble. There's a
drop-down menu in the gdm screen that allows me to choose the
WM/DE that I want to run.
> If I understand the problem correctly (?), I was thinking I might get
> away with manually downloading the missing .deb(s) from the repos at
> launchpad.net/efl and (re)installing via ‘dpkg -i’.
Actually, dpkg/apt should be able to resolve the dependencies for
NetworkManager, and install them for you. But again, I'm not
really familiar with those tools, so I could be wrong.
Anyway, that's all I've got. I hope it helps.
--Dale
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