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How can I install Elementary OS Loki in Ubuntu 16.10 without using the iso file? And having to change my partitions (which I know very little about). Upon trying to install EOS using the steps indicated (via the ppa) I get the error message: E: Unable to locate package elementary-desktop. Is one of the other methods there supposed to work for EOS under Ubuntu 16.10?

The elementary-desktop package is missing from the PPA, so this is not a duplicate of How to install the Pantheon desktop environment?

I must apologize here for being (though unintentional) somewhat misleading. What I am ultimately looking for is a safe method of running both Ubuntu 16.10 and Elementary Loki OS together. I am perfectly happy downloading the iso file (which I have just done) and rebooting my machine to install it. However, the reason I wanted to install from ppa and that alone is that I am uncertain how to configure my partition scheme so that EOS and Ubuntu both share my home directory and so that I do not loose any data in the process.

Within that framework can anyone please assist me?

Thanks,

-MD

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Michael Dykes
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Kindly refer to the steps on this website.
Here is the extract of this website:

  1. Download Ubuntu 16.04 Beta 2 and install it on your system.

  2. Once installed, add elementary daily PPA by typing the following in Terminal:

    sudo apt-add-repository ppa:elementary-os/daily

  3. Update the system and install elementary-desktop package:

    sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install elementary-desktop

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Jaffer Wilson
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You will need to be using the elementary daily PPA rather than the stable. The stable PPA is still only supporting 16.04/xenial while the daily does include packages for 16.10/yakkety. The daiily is here. Once you have added the PPA, apt update, apt install elementary-desktop should work.

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