Make sure you read InstallationHowTo about required packages.

You can also download, compile and install latest EDE version from source code via NetInstall script by running (as superuser):

wget http://equinox-project.org/netinstall && python netinstall

Remastersys team created Ubuntu 12.04 based distribution with EDE and you can burn it on CD.

To download latest source code from repository, you will need subversion installed. Here is how to checkout EDE components:

• ede: svn co http://svn.code.sf.net/p/ede/code/trunk/ede2
• edelib: svn co http://svn.code.sf.net/p/ede/code/trunk/edelib

or directly browse it.