Difficulities installing new GUI(DE)
 

So. Might not be a newbie but this is newbie Question.
Im trying to install EDE this : https://edeproject.org/ desktop enviroiment.
Problem starts with download section and basic install.

this line and it posts me this

and it gives this so here i am stuck.

Also downloaded source code and tryed to compile it..no luck.

Any help fellow EDE project users? If anyone uses it?

Well, you don't say which Linux distribution you are trying to install it onto. So it would really help to mention that.

You don't say what you have tried/read to try and resolve the issue. We can't guess.

In this link, there are at least 4 different Linux distributions listed - have you tried anything suggested there ? If so, what exactly ?

Where you running as the "root" user when you tried to install it ?

As jsbjsb001 noted:Your options are to change to root, or a more typical variation is to use the sudo command modifier in advance of that wget command.

As a general rule, you can't install anything unless you are root. Think how insecure your system would be if that were not so!

I do find it strangely nice that they actually have support for Slack
EDEOnSlackware shows how to install EDE on Slackware from pre-built packages and how to build it yourself.

and if it tells you that you have to be root to do something, then that is what that problem is, you're not root.
and other various ways to get you to be 'root'

Welcome to the forums, Sky_lake!

I'm afraid it will not be a newbie/beginner task to install EDE on your Xubuntu 18.04 system (according to your profile, apologies if that info is not correct). The reason being that EDE appears to be a dead/abandoned project since about 2015, so it has not been tested to work with the 2018 Xubuntu release. You may have to do some advanced troubleshooting to get it to work, or it may not even be compatible at all.

May I ask why you are interested in EDE as opposed to a currently-supported desktop environment that has been tested to work 100% with your Ubuntu 18.04 system? Good choices in my opinion include Xfce (Xubuntu), LXDE (Lubuntu), or MATE (Ubuntu Mate).

just to add to that, I just installed it to get a loooook at it, it is definitely lacking in some functionality, even though it looks to be well thought out in design, you're going to find yourself having to try fixing some of its failings in order to make it worth the effort to use and get around in comfortably, even with its aesthetics.

I try not to install anything that isn't in the distro repos. Otherwise you get franken distro.

That depends on what you are doing.

I think the topic poster is not ready for such tasks.

Reading the output and using google for => You must be a root <= seems a very difficult part

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Also most distros do not respect FHS. therefore such a script put garbage anywhere.

Writing a package for your distro is the only proper way of doing that. So a proper package manager (definitely not anything debian based) could handle file collision, files and such.

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I would not be that amazed with a project which relies, uses python 2.4 (which is kinda outdated and old)

yes i was running as root with "sudo" but it still showed me this.

As i said before I allready tried to run ./configurate and make and even install as root with sudo command. but still failed

Hello. Tnx for info but i still like this GUI. It hits close to Windows 95/98 theme and it looks similar. I thought it would look cool. Yes i run Xubuntu 18.04 i guess. I have tried everything. Ill still try to install this. i have allready installed Unity, Budgie, Deepin, Elementary os gui(pantheon) and most of them work. I still need to trubleshoot them but ill get them working. i want to find best GUI for my taste

I am using Xubuntu 18.04 with (currently) Budgie desktop.

I have tried many things. Tried to compile it myself, tried to find repos for EDE but failed. It isn't in Ubuntu repos too so no luck to get it.

i tried everything on this site https://edeproject.org/wiki/edeondebianlinux but there isnt aviable Ubuntu so i use closest remblence to Ubuntu (Debian) but i still couldnt do anything.

So a little update.
i tried this this.
it did work but when i chose EDE as GUI it just was black screen. So. Im now at this issue

Can you post the results of the following command:

Use CODE tags when you do - see my signature if you're not sure how.