la instalacion en ubuntu es bastante sencilla:
En Lucid ya viene en los repositorios
Sudo aptitude install avant-window-navigator awn-extras-applets
Agregamos Repositorio testing de awn:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:awn-testing
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install avant-window-navigator-trunk python-awn-trunk python-awn-extras-trunk awn-applets-python-extras-trunk awn-applets-c-extras-trunk
Agregamos el repositorio:
sudo bash -c "echo 'deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/awn-testing/ppa/ubuntu UBUNTU_VERSION main' >> /etc/apt/sources.list"
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys BF810CD5
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install avant-window-navigator-trunk python-awn-trunk python-awn-extras-trunk awn-applets-python-extras-trunk awn-applets-c-extras-trunk
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