You didn’t actually think I was done?  

I’ve actually been playing around some more with my eOS MBA and after installing a few more things and trying a few alternatives managed to break it again!  It wasn’t broken in the same sense that it wouldn’t boot, but I couldn’t install or update anything through the AppCenter (or Ubuntu Software Center I’d installed as an alternative) so after not too much trying to fix I thought I’d start again, hence Take 3.

Are you crazy I can imagine some people thinking?  Possibly, but I also wanted to see how long it would take a 3rd time and how much easier it would be knowing I’d blogged everything last time.  And unsurprisingly it was much quicker and easier!  I’m back to where I left, and have resolved a couple of self-inflicted issues from Take 2:

  • My keyboard wasn’t working too well before, with quite a few characters mapped to the wrong keys.  I’m sure I could have fixed this without starting again, but I remembered to choose the correct keyboard during the eOS installation (Mac International Keyboard) so now everything works as it should (i.e. @ & ” keys)
  • I found GDebi for installing the .deb files required.  This is great as it automatically resolves any dependencies, meaning I’m not installing stuff I don’t need.
  • I installed the elementary-tweaks from the developer’s GitHub page meaning I didn’t add unnecessary repositories to my sources.list (which I know I could remove)
  • I decided I actually prefer the open source OpenPHT app for Plex over the Plex supported PHT app, so installed this instead.  
After getting everything back, I then removed the previous partitions and cleansed from the grub boot loader so you’d never even know if I wasn’t being so honest and telling you!
 
The demise of Take 2 also got me playing with some possible replacement apps, but I’ll cover that in another blog…