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by Jean-Marc Autexier, Saarland/Germany
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31.12.04
16:34 Install xfce4 on Suse 9.2 with apt (
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XFCE is a desktop environment like KDE and Gnome (and many other). The main difference to KDE and Gnome is that it is very fast and lightweight, visually appealing and it follows the freedesktop.org recommendations.
Even if you are very happy with your desktop manager, give xfce a try. You will be surprised. I've used KDE for years and love it. But yes, it is a little bit slow and memory consuming. Now I use xfce and love how fast it is. Still I use many KDE application under xfce (kontact, k3b, ...).
suser-ollakka has released xfce4 packages for Suse 9.2. Packages are also available through apt.
Installation
Add suser-ollakka to your /etc/apt/sources.list file.
My file looks like this:
rpm ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt SuSE/9.2-i386 rpmkeys update-drpm update-prpm update suser-rbos suser-gbv packman packman-i686 suse-people suse-projects security-prpm security ximian misc mozilla funktronics kde3-stable suser-ollakka
Execute apt-get update, start synaptic and choose all xfce4 packages. Let synaptic resolve all dependencies and start installation.
In login dialog, choose XFCE as desktop manager and login.
