Installing elementary OS Luna Development Build
Today i am going to take you though the easiest way to install the development version of elementary OS Luna. Keeping in mind that Luna is still very alpha and I wouldn't suggest you install it on your main computer because to put it lightly ..... shit might break!
The easiest way as of TODAY (that i am aware of) to install elementary OS is by installing Ubuntu Oneiric Alpha 3 and going from there. At the moment I am assuming you know how to install Ubuntu so I will skip that part.
One you have installed Ubuntu we are going to update the system to have all the latest packages. Open up the terminal and type this:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
Add in both PPA's into software sources:
# Elementary Development PPA deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/elementaryart/elementary-dev/ubuntu oneiric main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/elementaryart/elementary-dev/ubuntu oneiric main # Elementary Unstable Upstream deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/elementaryart/unstable-upstream/ubuntu oneiric main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/elementaryart/unstable-upstream/ubuntu oneiric main
Once you have done this it is now time to update the PPA's and install elementary!
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install elementary-desktop
Once this has finished restart your machine and now at the login screen we click on the dropdown and choose Pantheon instead of Ubuntu.
Once this has done you have finished and you can start playing around with the unstable packages of elementary Luna like so:
Remember that whenever you want to keep your system up-to-date with the 'unstable' packages in the PPA's we added we need to run:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
I tend to run this once a day and i am getting a lot of updates because Ubuntu and elementary are so heavily under development at the moment!
If you have any questions feel free to leave them as a comment. I am not a developer or a designer of elementary just a fan of it and would still love feedback!