A Visual Install Guide

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[edit] Ubuntu

Note: this guide is for reacocard's repository; if you wish to use this guide for another repository, there are a few places where the instructions need to be changed.

1. Copy the "deb" line from the instructions.

2. Open the "Software Sources" preferences dialog.

3. In the "Third-Party Software" tab, click on "Add..."

4. In the dialog box that pops up, paste the "deb" line from step 1 into the "APT line" text box. Press "Add Source", and close the "Software Sources" dialog.

5. Open the "Synaptic Package Manager".

6. Click on the "Search" toolbar button.

7. Using the "Find" dialog, search for all packages that contain "avant-" in either their name or description.

8. A list of packages similar to the ones in the screenshot will be displayed.

9. Select all of the packages in the search results, right-click on one of them, and select "Mark for Installation".

10. At this point, a dialog box will pop up, asking you to confirm the packages that you have marked for installation.. the Awn-related packages will appear as "NOT AUTHENTICATED". Technically, this is OK. However, if you wish to make sure that reacocard has confirmed that the packages that you are installing are indeed his, you need to do the following:

a. Click "Cancel" on the confirmation dialog and close Synaptic.

b. Open up a terminal (Applications → Accessories → Terminal).

c. Run the following:

wget http://download.tuxfamily.org/syzygy42/reacocard.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update

d. Close the terminal and follow steps 5 through 9 again. This time, when the installation confirmation dialog appears, there should not be a "NOT AUTHENTICATED" category.

Click on "Mark" to confirm that you wish to mark these packages for installation.

11. Click on the "Apply" toolbar button to install the Awn packages.