Installing Beryl on Asus Eee PC
As part of my daily journey with my Asus eee pc, I attempted to install Beryl. It was not easy for a noob like me, but amazingly I succeeded.
You don’t have to know everything about Linux. As long as you know what is happening, you can still be on the right path.
The primary steps I followed was the one published on Asus Eee PC Wiki. It seems basic but it’s not detailed.
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Here are the steps on installing Beryl on Asus Eee PC.
- Add debian repositories to your sources.list file: This was the eeeasiest part for me since I have already done it a couple of times. All you need to do is open the sources.list file by typing the following from the console.
kwrite /etc/apt/sources.list
then add the ff:
#Beryl Repositories
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main
deb http://debian.beryl-project.org/ etch mainI recommend switching to super user so you won’t need to append “sudo” everytime you time admin commands. – type “sudo su or sudo bash”
- Import a PUBLIC KEY to allow downloading from the repo site: I went into some troubles around this step. I got a PUBLIC KEY download error and I can’t import the KEY. So I attempted the next step.
- Run apt-get update: Since I did not succeed the second step, I also had error on this one which is related to that DEBIAN PUBLIC KEY. It’s says it’s just a warning though, but I still can’t proceed with the next step.
- Installing the packages: Though I did not succeed with the previous two steps, I still attempted to proceed on this step which is installing the downloaded packages.
- Then right after I installed the PUBLIC KEY, I downloaded the emerarld theme. Then preceded with the steps which starts here.
sudo apt-get install beryl beryl-core beryl-manager beryl-plugins beryl-plugins-data beryl-settings beryl-settings-bindings emerald-themes
But it’s too tight that I really cannot succeed.
So I headed back to the second step and researched on the error I got. What I found is something related to GPG, and I had to install the PUBLIC KEY manually. I also had to install the GPG itself. These things, I really had no idea what I did. All I know is I succeeded.
See the steps are somehow vague, but I succeeded.
Anyway, using Beryl is not as convenient as usng KDE. I think it’s really for more advanced users but I’m still happy that I successfully installed it on our Asus Eee. But it’s really cool!
But how did you install the gpg and key manually???? Why write a page that says nothing???
Hi Fred,
I apologize for not being able to cover all the possible solutions on this topic. Btw, if you can send me the error message you get, i would certainly love to help.