How to install xfce 4.8

[Mdyter]

Hello to everyone!

I've found a script that will download and install (compile) xfce4.8 desktop environment.
I'm a linux newbie , so i you have particular questions, its very probably i will not be able to answer them, but I'll try as much as i can.

I installed xfce 4.8 with it on LMDE x64. Is working fine
Fell free to try it an please leave feedback.


my experience :
before running the script i used this command in terminal to install all required files:

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sudo aptitude install build-essential intltool libglib2.0-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev xserver-xorg-dev libgtk2.0-dev libstartup-notification0-dev libgladeui-1-dev libglade2-dev python-gtk2-dev libwnck-dev libexif-dev libfreetype6-dev libjpeg62-dev libpng12-dev libgudev-1.0-dev libnotify-dev libxklavier-dev libcanberra-dev libgconf2-dev libgnome-keyring1.0-cil-dev libgnome-keyring-dev libgamin-dev libhal-storage-dev

aptitude helped to remove conflicting packages

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#!/bin/bash
# Script - installazione automatizzata XFCE4.8.0 per ubuntu
# Script - Automatic Installation XFCE4.8.0 for ubuntu

#Testato su Ubuntu 10.04.1 (32bit) e Ubuntu 10.10 (64bit)
#Tested su Ubuntu 10.04.1 (32bit) and Ubuntu 10.10 (64bit)

#Utilizzo: copiare questo script nel punto dove si vogliono scaricare/compilare i sorgenti ed eseguirlo
#Usage: copy this script to the point where you want to download / compile source and run it

sudo apt-get install build-essential intltool libglib2.0-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev xserver-xorg-dev libgtk2.0-dev libstartup-notification0-dev libgladeui-1-dev libglade2-dev python-gtk2-dev libwnck-dev libexif-dev libfreetype6-dev libjpeg62-dev libpng12-dev libgudev-1.0-dev libnotify-dev libxklavier-dev libcanberra-dev libgconf2-dev libgnome-keyring1.0-cil-dev libgnome-keyring-dev libgamin-dev libhal-storage-dev

wget -c http://archive.xfce.org/xfce/4.8/fat_tarballs/xfce-4.8.tar.bz2
tar xfvj xfce-4.8.tar.bz2
cd src

tar xfvj libxfce4util-4.8.1.tar.bz2
cd libxfce4util-4.8.1/
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install
cd ..

tar xfvj xfconf-4.8.0.tar.bz2
cd xfconf-4.8.0/
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install
cd ..

tar xfvj libxfce4ui-4.8.0.tar.bz2
cd libxfce4ui-4.8.0/
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install
cd ..

tar xfvj libxfcegui4-4.8.0.tar.bz2
cd libxfcegui4-4.8.0/
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install
cd ..

tar xfvj exo-0.6.0.tar.bz2
cd exo-0.6.0/
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install
cd ..

#Scarico garcon
wget -c http://archive.xfce.org/src/libs/garcon/0.1/garcon-0.1.5.tar.bz2
tar xfvj garcon-0.1.5.tar.bz2
cd garcon-0.1.5/
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install
sudo cp data/xfce/xfce-applications.menu /etc/xdg/menus/
cd ..

tar xfvj xfce4-panel-4.8.0.tar.bz2
cd xfce4-panel-4.8.0/
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install
cd ..

tar xfvj Thunar-1.2.0.tar.bz2
cd Thunar-1.2.0/
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install
cd ..

tar xfvj xfce4-settings-4.8.0.tar.bz2
cd xfce4-settings-4.8.0/
./configure --enable-sound-settings --enable-pluggable-dialogs --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install
cd ..

tar xfvj xfce4-session-4.8.0.tar.bz2
cd xfce4-session-4.8.0/
./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-libgnome-keyring
make
sudo make install
cd ..

tar xfvj xfdesktop-4.8.0.tar.bz2
cd xfdesktop-4.8.0/
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install
cd ..

tar xfvj xfwm4-4.8.0.tar.bz2
cd xfwm4-4.8.0/
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install
cd ..

tar xfvj xfce-utils-4.8.0.tar.bz2
cd xfce-utils-4.8.0/
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install
cd ..

tar xfvj xfce4-appfinder-4.8.0.tar.bz2
cd xfce4-appfinder-4.8.0/
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install
cd ..

tar xfvj gtk-xfce-engine-2.8.0.tar.bz2
cd gtk-xfce-engine-2.8.0/
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install
cd ..

tar xfvj thunar-vfs-1.2.0.tar.bz2
cd thunar-vfs-1.2.0/
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install
cd ..

wget -c http://archive.be2.xfce.org/src/xfce/libxfce4menu/4.6/libxfce4menu-4.6.2.tar.bz2
tar xfvj libxfce4menu-4.6.2.tar.bz2
cd libxfce4menu-4.6.2/
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install

the script was originally found here (in italian): http://francobersani.blogspot.com/2011/01/xfce-480-installazione-da-sorgenti.html
p.s. sorry for poor English

[Habitual]

You have a recent backup, yes?

[Mdyter]

You have a recent backup, yes?

sure i made one with clonezilla and put it on another partition.
would be enough ?

[Habitual]

Better safe than sorry considering your recent experiences with you system.

[nanas]

followed instructins, copied-pasted commands on command line, restarted computer, and ... why do i not have a different desktop now?

Thanks for any anwer ...

[jeffreyC]

Umm.....because Linux Mint Debian Xfce already has Xfce 4.8 ?

[vrkalak]

And, the Fact that this Thread is a year old.

The entire Linux Universe has changed since then.

Every OS-distro that has Xfce as default, or in the Repros, already uses Xfce-4.8 (long time passing)

[Hawkeye_52]

And, the Fact that this Thread is a year old.

The entire Linux Universe has changed since then.

Every OS-distro that has Xfce as default, or in the Repros, already uses Xfce-4.8 (long time passing)

This thread is pretty ancient, but I believe that there is one pretty good Xfce distro that hasn't gone to 4.8 yet -- SalineOS. They just announced a new version, 1.6, but the way I read their forum, they will not be moving to 4.8 until version 2.0.

You are much more up on these DEs than I am, so if I am incorrect, please feel free to 'counsel' me .

Hawkeye

[sanda]

I can confirm that SalineOS 6.1, released yesterday, includes an earlier Xfce version (not v4.
For any distro using the Debian stable repo, the most recent xfce version there, IIRC, is 4.6.2