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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.

Here are the steps on installing Beryl on Asus Eee PC.
1. 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 main

   I recommend switching to super user so you won’t need to append “sudo” everytime you time admin commands. - type “sudo su or sudo bash”

2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.

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.

5. Then right after I installed the PUBLIC KEY, I downloaded the emerarld theme. Then preceded with the steps which starts here.

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!

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