Etch is the only Debian distribution currently supported by Envy, however many users keep asking me how to use Envy on Debian Testing (Lenny) or Unstable (Sid). If you want to try Envy on Debian testing or unstable at your very own risk you can follow these steps:
NOTE: you will have to put the word “sid” instead of “lenny” if you use Debian unstable
type:
sudo nano -w /usr/share/envy/instun/classes.py
go to line 324 so as to see the following line:
elif self.details['osname'] == 'cassandra':#SUPPORT FOR LINUX MINT CASSANDRA
self.details['osname'] = 'feisty'#this will make it act like
feisty
replace ‘cassandra’ with ‘lenny’ and ‘feisty’ with ‘etch’ so as to see something like the following (please, edit the file manually so as not to break Python’s indentation):
elif self.details['osname'] == 'lenny':#SUPPORT FOR LINUX MINT CASSANDRA
self.details['osname'] = 'etch'#this will make it act like feisty
Then press CTRL+X to exit (save the file)
Envy will no longer complain about the fact that your OS is not supported however it may crash for other reasons.
NOTE: Wordpress doesn’t seem to keep Python’s indentation :-/
Posted by Alberto Milone | August 12, 2007 8:54 pm
Filed under: Envy, Planet
Comments (17) |
August 20th, 2007 at 7:39 am
Would there be a way to get it to build the Debian/lenny package, as that’s now in 8.40.4?
August 20th, 2007 at 9:19 am
No, since Lenny is not supported. Only stable releases are supported.
September 10th, 2007 at 6:36 am
Can I use same method on linuxMint 3.1 Celena? It does not pass and says that my system is not supported even after I changed Cassandra to Celena. Thank you
September 10th, 2007 at 9:23 am
@AlexD
can you post the output of this command?
lsb_release -c
September 18th, 2007 at 3:21 am
Sorry, I was out a bit. Here it is:
trace@trace-desktop:~$ lsb_release -c
Codename: feisty
However I am running LinuxMint 3.1 (Beta)
September 18th, 2007 at 9:00 am
@AlexD
type:
sudo apt-get –purge remove envy
sudo rm -R /usr/share/envy
and install the latest release of Envy
April 17th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
Hi. I have installed a latest version “Envy Legacy – 0.9.10-0ubuntu10″ in a Debian/lenny with 2.6.22-3-amd64 kernel.
My problem is that there isn’t a /usr/share/envy/instun folder. I have only this folders:
applications
envyui
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.22.1
nvidia-graphic-drivers
nvidia-graphic-drivers-legacy
patches
There is another modification to make envy works in lenny or for the moment there isn’t a posibility.
Thanks for the great program, i have used in another computer with ubuntu and works very good.
April 17th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
@Basajaun
I haven’t got a copy of Lenny installed on my computer.
What error do you get?
April 24th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
Ok.
At first when i try to use envy
#envy -t
OK: All the packages are installed
+————————————————-+
| |
| Welcome to Envy 0.9.10 |
| |
| Developed by Alberto Milone (aka tseliot) |
| |
+————————————————-+
+———————————————————–+
| Envy Menu ver.0.9.10
+———————————————————–+
((The menu appears complete))
3
Envy – Version 0.9.10
ENVY ERROR: Your Operating System does not seem to be supported by Envy
This error message i understood that is because lenny isnt supported. Ok I go to
/usr/share/envy
and here there isn’t a “instun” folder and less the class.py file
I have search inside files on this folders and the unic file that have something similar is envyui/gtkenvy.py
I expect that will be a solution soon
Basajaun
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:30 pm
Greetings. I have lenny installed and your guidance works fine once Envy’s classes.py is located. Regarding cannot find the /usr/share/envy/instun folder, try updatedb followed by locate classes.py. I found two instances, one in /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Envy and one in python2.5. Since some things may you go hmmmm both were edited and it works.
R/
Mike
September 3rd, 2008 at 10:09 am
Michael: sorry but Lenny is not supported
October 28th, 2008 at 11:28 pm
I remember that Envy on Ubuntu (8.04) was the only way for me to get the ATI drivers to work correctly (w 3D enabled).
And with the solution suggested by Michael works for Debian/Lenny too!
Thanks both of you.
Alberto, you did a great job.
Ciao.
October 29th, 2008 at 8:37 am
Hi. Will there be support for Debian Lenny? Maybe in EnvyNG’s new version?
February 22nd, 2009 at 1:10 pm
Greetings!
When Debian Lenny is officially supported by Envy?
Lenny was declared a stable release abotu a week ago I suppose…
Thank you for Envy and your hard work to keep it running!
March 17th, 2009 at 5:30 am
Same thing here, I run Lenny and now it has been stable for quite some time. Would love to be able to use envy (or ng) on Debian Lenny.
Anyway, want to also thank you for envy, since it is a great tool and works like a charme on Ubuntu. You are part of why Ubuntu is conquering the world and making Linux usable on any desktop or Laptop even for lay people.
Markus
April 2nd, 2009 at 10:21 am
I cannot locate this file:
/usr/share/envy/instun/classes.py
Using envy_0.9.10-0ubuntu10_all.deb on Debian Lenny
October 14th, 2009 at 1:36 am
instale envy en debian lenny y me dise que la version no es compatible con lenny.
Trato de modificar el archivo casses.py en la carpeta instun y no esta por ningun lado que puedo hacer por favor necesito configurar mi tarjeta nvidia gforce 7100 en linux