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For all of you E17 and Fedora fans, this how-to will walk you through the steps of installing E17 on Fedora 15. The first thing we need to do is to add a couple additional RPM repositories to our list for some additional packages we will need to complete this. Open your favorite terminal and issue both commands below to add the RPMFusion-Free and RPMFusion-Non-Free repositories: su -c ‘rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm’ su -c ‘rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm’ (more…)
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If you use kdm and you want E17 to show up in the KDM login screen, you’ll need to do the following.  First as root user type: touch /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/23Enlightenment.desktop Then again as root user, open up that file in your favorite editor.  I’ll use vi for this example: vi /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/23Enlightenment.desktop Then you’ll want to add the following lines to the above mentioned file: [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Name=Enlightenment Comment=Enlightenment TryExec=/usr/local/bin/enlightenment_start Exec=Enlightenment_start Icon= Type=Application Save the file as you always would and then when you restart and boot back to your KDM login screen, Enlightenment-17 should be listed.
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