Pantheon Desktop for Debian are packages taken from elementary, adjusted and recompiled for usage on Debian Stretch and on Debian Buster (testing).
Pantheon Desktop packages cannot be tested as extensively as Debian Stretch/Buster, and this packages are provided on an as-is basis, with risk of incompatibilities with other components in Debian. Use with care!
The Pantheon Desktop was based under current Elementary Loki branch for Stretch, and under Elementary Juno branch for Buster. The repository located at http://gandalfn.ovh/debian contains:
a branch for stretch: stretch-loki with the following architectures:
amd64
a branch for buster (testing): buster-juno with the following architectures:
amd64
i386
You can enable pantheon debian repositories by installing the pantheon-debian-repos.deb.
You can install it manually by running this:
Install required dependencies if needed
apt-get install apt-transport-https software-properties-common wget
Download package file
for stretch:
wget https://gandalfn.ovh/debian/pool/main/p/pantheon-debian-repos/pantheon-debian-repos_0.4-0+pantheon+stretch+loki1_all.deb
for buster (testing):
wget https://gandalfn.ovh/debian/pool/main/p/pantheon-debian-repos/pantheon-debian-repos_0.5-0+pantheon+buster+juno1_all.deb
Install it
for stretch:
dpkg -i pantheon-debian-repos_0.4-0+pantheon+stretch+loki1_all.deb
for buster (testing):
dpkg -i pantheon-debian-repos_0.5-0+pantheon+buster+juno1_all.deb
Update your repositories:
apt-get update
To install pantheon desktop launch:
apt-get install pantheon
or to install only pantheon desktop without greeter:
apt-get install pantheon-shell
To launch pantheon desktop select pantheon when launching session on greeter.
The repository provides some usefull third-party packages: