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chris-gituse

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Registered: 2020-03-21

Posts: 4

How to install xfce4.12 from tarball

Hi, my question is pretty simple. I have xfce4.12.bz2 tarball and I want to install it on arch.

steps to install from xfce4.12.tar.bz2

wget http://archive.xfce.org/xfce/4.12/fat_tarballs/xfce-4.12.tar.bz2

Before start we must install necessary dependencies:

pacman -S autoconf automake intltool pkgconfig glib2.0 gtk+-2.0 dbus-glib2.0 xfconf gio2.0 libglade2.0 perl libwnck* gudev-1.0

extract tarball

xvjf xfce-4.12.tar.bz2

compile each one in the following order

./configure
make
make install

after running each command on folders I have encounter some fatal errors: dbus-glib.h, xfce_commom_la-panel-xfconf
Seems like makefile causing a problem, should I have reinstalled in some other way, can you guide me how to set up tarball in Arch?

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,390

Re: How to install xfce4.12 from tarball

Why? Frankly you are not prepared to do this if you ask this question the way you are asking. And this is a picture book case of a help vampire's question

The disclaimer out of the way. First of all you should not ever use make directly for system wide installs, do a proper PKGBUILD (you could use the ABS to grab the PKGBUILDs of old xfce packages...). And most importantly post the entire logs and exact errors of what you are getting: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855

But again you will likely run into a load of system level conflicts as things have moved on in software so you should have a very good reason to do this and a lot of self initiative to patch things and learn about how this works (can you guide me? is the wrong approach to that).

Last edited by V1del (2020-03-21 11:13:49)