Please remember that all the repositories here are community-contributed and are not official repositories. They are not supported by the developers of AWN and no guarantees are made. On the other hand, most of these have been in operation for a fairly long time and are fairly well maintained. If you have any problems, you can usually ask about it on the forums.

If you know that the instructions presented here are out of date, broken, or that other repositories/packages exist (for any distro), you can also notify the community (amd hence the maintainer of this site) through the forums.

To Install on from BZR Source

Install Dependencies:

sudo aptitude install build-essential automake1.9 autotools-dev libxdamage-dev libxcomposite-dev libgnome2-common libgnome2-dev libgnome-desktop-dev libgnome-vfs-dev libgtk2.0-dev libwnck-dev libgconf2-dev libglib2.0-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev libgnomevfs2-0 libgnome-desktop-2 libgnome2-0 libwnck-common python-gtk2 python-gconf gnome-common python-dev python-gtk2-dev python-cairo-dev python-gconf python-gnome2-dev python2.5-dev

sudo aptitude install bzr

For other distros, install equivalent packages.

Get the source code:

bzr co http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~awn-core/awn/trunk avant-window-navigator

cd avant-window-navigator

Finally, compile and run:

./autogen.sh && make && sudo make install

Now you can run your newly installed AWN

avant-window-navigator & 

In the future, you can update you source code by running:

bzr update

in the source directory.

To Install on Ubuntu

Run the following from a terminal:

gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Add to the bottom of the file:

deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/syzygy42/ feisty avant-window-navigator

Then run:

wget http://download.tuxfamily.org/syzygy42/8434D43A.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo apt-get install avant-window-navigator-bzr awn-core-applets-bzr

To Install on Fedora

Run the following from a terminal:

cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
sudo wget http://www.csc.calpoly.edu/~admiller/repo/pub/kirov.repo

sudo rpm --import http://www.csc.calpoly.edu/~admiller/repo/pub/RPM-GPG-KEY-Kirov

Run the following from a terminal:

sudo yum install avant-window-navigator

To Install on Debian

Run the following from a terminal:

gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Add to the bottom of the file:

deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/deb4gilir/avant-window-navigator/ unstable main

Then run:

sudo apt-get install avant-window-navigator

To Install on openSuse

Use the openSuse Repository to install AWN.

To Install on Mandriva

Avant Window Navigator will be available in the contrib section of Mandriva Linux 2007 Spring. It is also available in the backports repository of the contrib section of Mandriva Linux 2007. New versions will be regularly updated to the backports repository of the contrib sections for supported stable releases. To add this repository as a package source on your system, you can use the official Mirror Finder tool.