How to install Avant windows Navigator in Ubuntu Gusty Through repository

Posted on October 18, 2007 | 6 Comments

First, edit your apt sources: gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Add these lines to the bottom:

## Avant Window Navigator
deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/syzygy42/ gutsy avant-window-navigator
deb-src http://download.tuxfamily.org/syzygy42/ gutsy avant-window-navigator

Then do this in a terminal:

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

Now to install the stable AWN version do

NOTICE: No stable AWN at this time. It will be added at the next release

For AWN BZR do:

sudo apt-get install avant-window-navigator-bzr

You can install more applets for AWN by doing:

sudo apt-get install awn-core-applets-bzr

Yigal | October 19, 2007 at 4:52 pm |

Thanks, Great post.
I tried all kind of installations on my new gusty, none of them fully worked, this one is working big time and is the very latest version of AWN
Ubuntu_noob | November 1, 2007 at 2:15 pm |

Thanks for the guide, its so awesome
Shaan | November 18, 2007 at 2:04 am |

thanks

sincerely great job man trying to get my hands on this for a long time. tried lots of many things but this works perfect.
Dark Star | November 22, 2007 at 2:18 am |

Nice work and gr8 blog Kisan 😀 Its god to see fellow country men in Tux world 😀
Matt | March 28, 2008 at 6:10 pm |

Thanks mate, been trying for a while to get this up. New to Ubuntu and Linux in general and posts like these really help. Cheers!
BAnze | April 25, 2008 at 12:02 pm |

it doesnt work on mine it says :
Package awn-core-applets-bzr has no installation candidate

AND:

E: Couldn’t find package avant-window-navigator-bzr

DO YOU KNOW WHY??? please help