Equinox GTK Engine Installation/Themes

[parisiangirl72]

I've been trying to install new Equinox themes on my 11.10 64-bit system.It seems that Equinox is not yet available for 11.10,but I'm not sure.These are some instructions that I managed to find,but need clarity.

From gnome-look.org-user:tithem

"Engine installation

First of all, make sure you have installed the GTK+ library development files (libgtk2.0-dev on Debian/Ubuntu, gtk2-devel on Fedora) with your favorite package manager.

Then to compile the Equinox engine, extract the corresponding archive in your home folder. In the new directory, run the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-animation

make



On Fedora 64 bits (and perhaps other distribs), compilation don't work with the options above. You must run:

./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64 --enable-animation



Finally, run this command as root:

make install"

GTK+ library development files (libgtk2.0-dev for Ubuntu)-This package was in the Software center,so I installed it easily.Now,I just need to get through this next part.

"Then to compile the Equinox engine, extract the corresponding archive in your home folder. In the new directory, run the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-animation

make"

Root is something that I'm still not quite familiar with.As to the second one,how am I supposed to run the command?

If there is anyone that can help me with this,I would appreciate it.

[ImChipBrown]

Did you see these instructions? I've done this with other stuff not in Symantic Package manager with mixed results. From the site you cut and pasted from, at the very bottom, it says "

Launchpad PPA
Equinox is available to install for Ubuntu users via a PPA repository. Open a terminal and run :

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tiheum/equinox

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install gtk2-engines-equinox equinox-theme

"
You open a terminal easily by going to Applications->Accessories->Terminal

You can copy the above instructions one at a time and paste them into the terminal to "Run" them.

[parisiangirl72]

If I already tried that,then how can I tell if it worked?Some of the time when I use PPA's to install things it dosen't work.Or it says that it can't find the repositories for the program I'm trying to get.Its gotten a little bad with 11.10 since they dumped many of the programs that were great with 11.04.