Upgrade to E24?

[DeuilEtoiles]

Hello all -
Brand new user here. I remember E17 from many years ago and ran Bodhi on an old MacBook until recently. I dig elive do far - I installed the latest 64-bit version when I donated last week.
How do I update from E16 to the latest Enlightenment? I see posts about always having the latest E version but I don’t see any way to do it.
I am sure I am missing something obvious. Enlightenment is not like any WM/DE I have used.

[triantares]

@DeuilEtoiles

I see posts about always having the latest E version but I don’t see any way to do it.

The latest E is not considered stable enough to use as the sole DE on Elive yet, hence the use of E16.

If you want to, you can run E24 concurrently by simply installing it:
"api enlightenment" (api = alias for apt install BTW) which will pull in the needed dependencies.

The E24 installed is the latest vanilla version offered by enlightenment i.e not in anyway modded or tweaked like E16 or E17.

We do have some threads and on how to customize or troubleshoot and would advise you to look at this thread:

Enlightenment (E24) Tips .... Please expand

Hi, Maybe it's laready been reported in an older topics (I didn't read all of them) : when logging in on e23, the welcome screen is displayed for a very long time (about 4 minutes) before I get actually logged in. The screen is not frozen though. I can move the mouse pointer and the screen darkens every 30 seconds of inactivity. This didn't happen on the very first login after e23 installation. Any idea why it takes so long ? Is there anything I can check to help improve this issue ?

and:

BUG hunting Enlightenment (E24+)

Yes, it is a sort of parallel universe. At the time E22 was the latest version but now there is also 23+ and an E23 thread headed by a "howto" at the top that can be edited by anyone who wants to: Renaming E22+ and E23+ into a more generic "Enlightenment-latest" or testing, might just be a tad too generic for search engines IMO.