plunn said:
Something is broken for me.... :)

Welcome to the list of Hardy users with this issue :-)

I'm just waiting to see if anyone who's has built from source on hardy in the last day sees the same thing. I want to confirm if it is just a PPA package issue or a general Hardy issue.... my suspicion is that it is just a case of Hardy being broken in general.

moonbeam said:
Interesting. And good to know. I guess there may be an issue with the PPA build of extras.

Well, Vala...I am really suspicious about that package... :)

Can you please check usr/bin/avant-window-navigator

If I build/install with awn-core-testing there are no file...???

Must use Gilirs package.

EDIT

Builds OK with the merged trunk... :)

Ok si i was trying to build it and got this:

 
mike@mike-desktop:~/awn$ ./autogen.sh 
/usr/bin/gnome-autogen.sh
checking for autoconf >= 2.53...
  testing autoconf2.50... not found.
  testing autoconf... found 2.61
checking for automake >= 1.9...
  testing automake-1.10... not found.
  testing automake-1.9... found 1.9.6
checking for libtool >= 1.5...
  testing libtoolize... found 1.5.24
checking for glib-gettext >= 2.2.0...
  testing glib-gettextize... not found.
***Error***: You must have glib-gettext >= 2.2.0 installed
  to build avant-window-navigator.  Download the appropriate package for
  from your distribution or get the source tarball at
    ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.2/glib-2.2.0.tar.gz
  


  
checking for intltool >= 0.30...
  testing intltoolize... found 0.36.2
checking for pkg-config >= 0.14.0...
  testing pkg-config... found 0.22
checking for gtk-doc >= 1.0...
  testing gtkdocize... not found.
***Error***: You must have gtk-doc >= 1.0 installed
  to build avant-window-navigator.  Download the appropriate package for
  from your distribution or get the source tarball at
    http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gtk-doc/
  


  
Checking for required M4 macros...
  glib-gettext.m4 not found
  gtk-doc.m4 not found
***Error***: some autoconf macros required to build avant-window-navigator
  were not found in your aclocal path, or some forbidden
  macros were found.  Perhaps you need to adjust your
  ACLOCAL_FLAGS?
  


  
mike@mike-desktop:~/awn$ 
 

searayman said:
how can i check these things?

1. run `valac --version`

2. Look in the top level source directory's bindings/vala folder for awn.vapi

searayman said:

I already have it?

I think you need libc6-dev

There seems to be an issue with the testing repo. Any attempt to update apt is throwing this error at me:

 
E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/ppa.launchpad.net_awn-testing_ubuntu_dists_hardy_main_binary-i386_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.
 

I've had to comment it out of my sources.list in order to use apt at all. Should this be reported to Launchpad?

ketilwaa said:
BTW: For those who can't get Synaptic/ apt-get started again, this does the trick: sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/ppa.launchpad.net_awn-testing_ubuntu_dists_hardy_main_binary-amd64_Packages

And remove the PPA from your source.list for now, since we find a way to repair this ...

pavpanchekha said:
"Updates" Tab
"Recommended Updates (gutsy-updates)" -> Check that

Thanks pavpanchekha, I updated the instructions on the wiki to reflect this.

New awn user here, but have been using Ubuntu since Hoary Hedgehog was released. I just recently found http://wiki.awn-project.org/index.php?title=Main_Page and made my way here.

My box:
AMD athlon 2800+
1Gb ram
nVidia GeForce 6800 (with nvidia graphics driver installed)
Compiz is up and running

 

$ lsb_release -a | grep Description
No LSB modules are available.
Description:	Ubuntu 8.04.1
 

How I installed awn:
1) Followed the guide at http://wiki.awn-project.org/DistributionGuides#Testing_Package_Archive

2) sudo aptitude install avant-window-navigator-trunk awn-extras-applets-trunk awn-manager-trunk

Launched avant-window-manager and all is well - not one single problem. I'm using the Awn Main Menu and File Browser applets and made my own theme. I'm using the awn testing releases here and it seems to be quite stable. The only thing I noticed is that I added the Awn Terminal applet, clicked on it and nothing happened so I removed the applet from my list - no problem as I have a launcher for gnome-terminal.

Whomever created the awn PPA, and to the folks who maintain awn, you all ROCK! Keep up the great work

ardchoille said:
Launched avant-window-manager and all is well - not one single problem. I'm using the Awn Main Menu and File Browser applets and made my own theme. I'm using the awn testing releases here and it seems to be quite stable. The only thing I noticed is that I added the Awn Terminal applet, clicked on it and nothing happened so I removed the applet from my list - no problem as I have a launcher for gnome-terminal.

For Terminal Applet: Right click on that and choose preferences - for some reason, 0% opacity is the default opacity, which makes it invisible. Then you can also launch gnome-terminal with middle click on the icon

pavpanchekha said:
For Terminal Applet: Right click on that and choose preferences - for some reason, 0% opacity is the default opacity, which makes it invisible. Then you can also launch gnome-terminal with middle click on the icon

Ah, thank you for this info.. problem solved. I just noticed that the "Hide on Unfocus" option for the awn terminal applet doesn't seem to work, which is not a big deal to me, I'll use this nice applet anyway.

Also, I just realized that you can make a launcher for gedit, then drag and drop a text file on the launcher icon and gedit opens that text file.

awn continues to amaze me.