I just realized that you were trying to install from a PPA and not from the tar files available at the Xfce home site. <SLAPS FOREHEAD> I don't know how I made that mistake.
I don't know whether or not I should mention it, but when I realized what you were trying to do - and that there was a PPA for this in the first place - I added it to my sources, ran Update Manager (I did that instead of typing sudo apt-get update into a terminal window because I wanted to see exactly what would be updated on my system and to have a chance to easily pick and choose which files it updated), clicked on the button to perform the update... and it did so without spitting out a single error. I then restarted my computer and everything seems to be fine. Better than fine, actually, as adding this PPA killed at least a couple bugs that I've experienced and added some features that I was hoping to see. So thank you for that.
Anyway, I just managed to accomplish what you were trying to do. So we
should be able to figure out your issue.
jimwg wrote:Despite following user instructions, I'm unable to install xfdesktop 4.10.2 via PPA -- which said it's not there -- or the downloaded package I tried previously which had all kinds of arcane directions to compile.
What, exactly, were those instructions?
What, exactly, did you do when you made the attempt(s) and what, if any, error messages were displayed?
How I updated xfdesktop (et cetera) to their current versions:
I visited
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https://launchpad.net/~xubuntu-dev/+archive/xfce-4.10
and copied the name of the PPA, which is
Then, I opened a terminal window by picking Terminal Emulator from the menu
I then typed the command to add a PPA and pasted the name
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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xubuntu-dev/xfce-4.10
I was asked to approve or disapprove the action and I approved it.
You can type or paste the following into your terminal window in order to update your lists
But I just closed the terminal window, ran Update Manager (and typed in my sudo password), clicked on the Refresh button, looked at the additional packages in the list that it wanted to update, and clicked on the Install Updates button. UM did its thing, I exited the app and rebooted my system to ensure that all of the changes got picked up...
And I must have gotten the new xfdesktop file installed correctly, because it
definitely fixed bugs.
If you follow the above procedure, it should work fine and update your xfdesktop to the current version. Give it a shot and let me know. (BtW, if it works, please go back and edit the subject in your first post in the thread to add [SOLVED] to the end of it (thanks!).)
Good luck,
MDM