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Avant Window Navigator on Ubuntu Gutsy
Just been rebuilding my Ubuntu Gutsy box after it had really started to crawl – mainly due to me playing with too many bits of software trying to learn new things. The advantages of hosting a separate partition for /home have saved me loads of time and effort as all my data is separate to the OS, so a quick format and within 10 mins I have a shiny new system.
Anyway, one of the things I find essential now on a desktop is AWN (Avant Window Navigator) – it adds that nice Mac dock at the bottom of the screen. The steps to install are as follows:
First add the repository containing AWN:
$sudo pico /etc/apt/sources.list
Add the following lines:
## Avant Window Navigator
deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/syzygy42/ gutsy avant-window-navigator
deb-src http://download.tuxfamily.org/syzygy42/ gutsy avant-window-navigator
Download/install/remove the reaocard
$wget http://download.tuxfamily.org/syzygy42/reacocard.asc
$sudo apt-key add reaocard.asc
$rm reaocard.asc
Install Avant Window Navigator
$sudo apt-get install avant-window-navigator-bzr
For extra applets, just add
$sudo apt-get install awn-core-applets-bzr
Done 
