Overview
This installer allows easy and platform-independent installation of the Xfce desktop environment.
Requirements
- Gtk+ 2.2 devel files (or higher) have to be installed. The corresponding debian-package is <tt>libgtk2.0-dev</tt>, RedHat/Fedora/SuSE-user need the package <tt>gtk2-devel</tt>.
- In addition, the libraries <tt>libICE</tt> and <tt>libSM</tt> are required for installation of Xfce. The corresponding debian-packages are <tt>libice-dev</tt> and <tt>libsm-dev</tt>. Redhat/Fedora/SuSE-user need either <tt>XFree86-devel</tt> or <tt>xorg-x11-devel</tt>.
Howto
First, download this file:
Once the download has completed successfully, the file has to be marked executable:
$ chmod +x xfce4-4.2.1.1-installer.bin
If you want to install Xfce systemwide, perform the following steps:
$ xhost +localhost
$ su
# ./xfce4-4.2.1.1-installer.bin
In case you don't have root access to the system, you can choose to install the software for your user-account only. Proceed with the following command:
$ ./xfce4-4.2.1.1-installer.bin
Further information on usage of the installation wizard and about potentially occuring problems can be found in the online-documentation.