Comment 156 for bug 729979

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MC Return (mc-return) wrote :

@a-hafner: Andi, I am happy that the instructions for installing Emerald worked for you as well, and I am happy to hear that your white windows are gone and that the dodge focus animation is working also 4 you... :)

I am trying to convince the Ubuntu packaging/motu guys to continue packaging Emerald for modern Ubuntu (12.04, 12.10, 13.04), unfortunately I did not succeed with this task yet... :(

So every user who wants Emerald to continue to live on their modern Ubuntu system currently has to do some unnecessary complicated actions to make that happen:
For those interested in trying Emerald without having to compile from source, LP-user brainpower also maintains a PPA with .deb packages of Emerald for Precise and Quantal:

https://launchpad.net/~brainpower/+archive/testing

Both versions work on Raring as well, so if you are on raring simply download the .deb files, here for example the AMD64 builds for Quantal (also working on Raring):

https://launchpad.net/~brainpower/+archive/testing/+build/3916940

P.S.: Credits for making Emerald compile again on 12.04+ go to brainpower as well, as he was the first to come up with a solution for fixing the compilation...