How to install the Enlightenment Desktop Environment E22 on Ubuntu 17. Install Enlightenment Desktop Ubuntu via Enlightenment PPA. Enlightenment E22 Desktop Environment brings various changes and improvements, such as:
- Greatly improved Wayland support
- Improvements to new gadget infrastructure
- Added a sudo/ssh askpass utility gui
- Meson build system
- Tiling policy improvements
- Integrated per-window volume controls
Install Enlightenment Desktop Environment E22
Run the following commands to install the Enlightenment Desktop Environment E22 on Ubuntu 17 and other Ubuntu Derivatives:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:niko2040/e19
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install enlightenment
Once installed, log out and select Enlightenment on the login screen.
Additional Components
To install Enlightenment and Terminology (recommended):
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:niko2040/e19
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install enlightenment terminology
To install EFL for development:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libefl-dev
E21 daily builds PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:enlightenment-git/ppa
EFL is a collection of libraries for handling many common tasks a developer may have such as data structures, communication, rendering, widgets and more. There are many components inside EFL. They also build various things like shared libraries, loadable plug-in modules and also binary executables. Different elements will end up being licensed differently too.
For more info, visit: https://git.enlightenment.org/core/efl.git/tree/README