Jonathan Tullett

Since being forced to upgrade from FC14 to FC17 at work (yes, yes, I know it's practically EOL already, but in a corp environment, what can one do), and the company deciding not to support Gnome 2 any more (despite that being the supported WM under FC14) I decided to run E17.

Unfortunately I don't have root access to the box, so I've rolled my own (and it's the first compile-from-source I've done in quite some time!). Here's how I automated it (change INSTALL_ROOT and the pack in the .Xclients file to suit):

#!/bin/bash

export INSTALL_ROOT=/spare/local/apps/e17
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$INSTALL_ROOT/lib/pkgconfig
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$INSTALL_ROOT/lib:/usr/lib64

components="
eina-1.7.6
eet-1.7.6
evas-1.7.6.1
evas_generic_loaders-1.7.6
ecore-1.7.6
eio-1.7.6.1
embryo-1.7.6
edje-1.7.6
efreet-1.7.6
e_dbus-1.7.6
eeze-1.7.6
emotion-1.7.6
ethumb-1.7.6
elementary-1.7.6
enlightenment-0.17.2.1
"
mkdir -p $HOME/tmp
cd $HOME/tmp
for i in $components
do
        wget http://download.enlightenment.org/releases/$i.tar.gz
        tar -zxvf $i.tar.gz
        cd $i
        make distclean
        ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_ROOT
        make -j4
        make install
        cd $HOME/tmp
done

Then, to get it running, I did:

cat <<EOF > $HOME/.Xclients
#!/bin/bash
shopt -s execfail
export TZ=Europe/London
exec /spare/local/apps/e17/bin/enlightenment_start
EOF

Reboot, select 'run user script' from the options, and you're good to go.