Packages for GNU/Linux distributions
Foresight
Packages are officially maintained in Foresight's default repository
Run:
sudo conary update group-elisa-media
Ubuntu
Supported architectures are: i386, amd64, lpia
For Ubuntu Hardy (8.04)
Add the following line in /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/elisa-developers/ubuntu hardy main
Run:
$ sudo aptitude update $ sudo aptitude install elisa elisa-plugins-ugly
Mandriva Linux
Packages are available in the /contrib section.
For Mandriva Linux Cooker (the development release)
The packages are in /contrib/release.
For Mandriva Linux 2008
The packages are in /contrib/backports. For instructions on setting up the /contrib/backports repository, see http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Docs/Basic_tasks/Installing_and_removing_software#Advanced_use:_Backports_and_candidate_updates . Once the repository is configured, you can simply install the 'elisa' package. Only required dependencies will be installed; for optional dependencies, please see the Elisa README.txt.
Suse
Packman provide pigment and elisa RPMS. See http://packman.links2linux.de/package/elisa and http://packman.links2linux.de/package/pigment
Fedora Core 7
RPMs for Elisa and all its dependencies are available on the Official repositories. Many thanks to Matthias Saou for taking time to build all these packages 
Fedora Core 9
Currently there are rpms for elisa 5.3, pigment 3.7 and deps in FreshRPMS.net testing repository. http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/testing/9/elisa/ They seem to work. Redhat bugzilla in reference to getting something in official repositories here https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=429590
Debian
Elisa is officially packaged on Debian Sid. Be sure to have unstable repositories configured in /etc/apt/sources.list and run:
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install elisa
Gentoo
Follow this howto: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Elisa_Media_Centre
ArchLinux
Enable community repo, then:
# pacman -S elisa
Install the whole group.