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 libgtk2.0-dev, RedHat/Fedora/SuSE-user need the package gtk2-devel.
- In addition, the libraries libICE and libSM are required for installation of Xfce. The corresponding debian-packages are libice-dev and libsm-dev. Redhat/Fedora/SuSE-user need either XFree86-devel or xorg-x11-devel.
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.