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IMPORTANT : YOU NEED TO HAVE A ROOT ACCESS
TO INSTALL XFCE PROPERLY.
1) Installing from a tar archive
Once you've retrieved the archive, ie a file that sounds like xfce-2.0.?.tar.gz,
Untar the source file :
$ tar xvzf XFCE-2.0.?.tar.gz; cd XFCE-2.0.?
(Of course, replace the question tag by the release version)
2) Edit Imakefile to suit your system (if needed)
This point could be optional.. If you are new to Unix, first try without
editing the Imakefile
3) Create Makefile
If you don't have Imake installed, then you can try with the one shipped
in the package or get the makefile that someone else used for your platform,
or even better, get Imake from ftp.x.org
!
4) Create other Makefiles
5) Compile and install
To compile and install XFCE, just type
This would install XFCE, XFwm and XFbd so it can be run from the command
line.
6) Choose your default language
From within XFce's source directory, type the one of the following lines
:
then
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