Afisufi 0.1 Alpha 4 Installation Guide

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Please note that this software is a pre-release version. Don't hope to find something perfect and stable. This theme, and its installation processes may alter your computer booting process so please follow this steps only if you are sure of what you are doing.

Download the Binary

You can download it via browser just following this link or use your terminal to do so

cd Desktop && wget http://blog.andreaolivato.net/downloadsafisufi-high-tech-0.1-alpha-4.so.bz2

Install Startup Manager

From your Ubuntu Box just use Synaptic to search and install startupmanager package or, if you prefer, do everything from the terminal

sudo apt-get install startupmanager

Extract the theme from the bz2

You can extract your theme both via command line

cd Desktop && bunzip2 afisufi-high-tech-0.1-alpha-4.so.bz2

and via gui

Right click on the .bzip file → Extract Here

Run Startup Manager

Go to your menu , System → Administration → Startup Manager

Configure Grub

Under the first tab of Startup Manager (Boot Options) check this options

  • Display → Resolution → 1280×1024 or 1024×768 or 800×600 or 640×40
  • Display → Color depth → 24bits
  • Misc → Show boot Splash → Yes
  • Misc → Show text during boot → Yes
Install Theme

Under the second tab (Appareance) do

  • Manage usplash themes… → + Add → select /home/yourname/Desktop/afisufi-high-tech-0.1-alpha-4.so
  • Choose ‘afisufi-high-tech-0.1-alpha-3’ from the Usplash Theme: select
  • Close and wait for StartUp manager to finish post installation scripts

Turn on Verbose Mode

To be sure of seing the text during the boot process open the grub configuration file and delete ‘quiet’ from your kernel line

sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

find your kernel and delete the quiet word from the options.

Reboot and Enjoy

If you want to be up-to-date with this theme changes please visit its official page

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afisufi-0.1-alpha-4-installation-guide.txt · Last modified: 07/04/2009 18:02 (external edit)
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