Hi there is also a ppa for e21 at https://launchpad.net/~niko2040/+archive/ubuntu/e19
I use the Debian packages with no problems but there seem to be ones for xenial too. Cheers On 2 Nov 2016 03:50, "Carsten Haitzler" <[email protected]> wrote: On Tue, 1 Nov 2016 21:00:58 +0000 Peter Flynn <[email protected]> said: > On 11/01/2016 12:10 AM, Simon Lees wrote: > > > > > > On 11/01/2016 08:32 AM, Peter Flynn wrote: > >> I have been (and still am) running e18 without problems on Xubuntu 15.10 > >> but I just upgraded a system to 16.04 and found that the only packaged > >> version in the repos was e17! > >> > >> Does anyone know why this has gone backwards? > >> > >> I know I should be using e20, but the PPA doesn't support 16.04 yet. > >> > >> ///Peter > >> > > > > Well were now at 21.3, Ubuntu doesn't have an active community > > maintainer, for enlightenment, > > Maybe when I retire (2018) I can look at that. Problem is, I'm a *user* > of Enlightenment: I have to have a fully-working system, not an > experimental one. Right now e18 has been fairly solid. > > But the real puzzle is why Xenial went retrograde and used e17 instead > of e18. I posted the same message to the xubuntu list but no reply so far. > > > if you really want to use enlightenment > > on ubuntu its probably best to build efl and it yourself, with some > > package merges the number of things you need to build now is quite small. > > I've never had any luck building systems that big. Downloading a GNU > utility and typing ./configure;make;make install usually works, but with > larger applications there's always a dozen utterly unresolvable > conflicts because the devs are all on custom-built kernels and systems > and have used libraries that can't be installed on regular distros > because they conflict with the underlying system. Deeply frustrating. > > I might dig out an old sacrificial system and install virgin Xenial > where I can go ahead and break things. that's not us. i just installed efl+_e on raspbian (i did have to switch to testing as the jessie release was too old deps-wise for wayland, but for everything else it was fine without switching to testing). i just had to apt-get install dependencies and presto. it built and worked. the system doesnt have a custom kernel or in fact custom ANYTHING except the builds of efl, e, terminology, rage etc. in /usr/local. you shouldn't apply your general experience like above to us i think. we're really good at not needing anything bizarre or custom or special. -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------ Developer Access Program for Intel Xeon Phi Processors Access to Intel Xeon Phi processor-based developer platforms. With one year of Intel Parallel Studio XE. Training and support from Colfax. Order your platform today. http://sdm.link/xeonphi _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Developer Access Program for Intel Xeon Phi Processors Access to Intel Xeon Phi processor-based developer platforms. With one year of Intel Parallel Studio XE. Training and support from Colfax. Order your platform today. http://sdm.link/xeonphi _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
