You may want do know that your guide to install e17 does not work anymore..

what exactly do you mean? the repository is still online.
I have not tried to install e17 on dapper though...

IMO > lovely & simple instrux > Bravo!!

I have been looking for a simple resource like this... thank you so much for this simple howto!

no e17 repository you supplied isn't no more working, all files are of 1k.
this one (deb http://edevelop.org/pkg-e/ubuntu edgy e17) is working, i installed it yesterday from this article.
but i wanted to say to you good job and nice simple howto

thanks for the notice. Just updated the article.

With Ubuntu 7.10 server, you also need to install xfonts-base to get X & Gnome working