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coderonline

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Registered: 2007-12-25

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desktop installation question...

Hi All,

I am an inexperienced Linux user.I have an old P2 233mhz laptop & i was planning for a OS that runs good on low memory.My friend advised me to go for Arch Linux.I have installed it succesfully.

I have downloaded xpde-o.5.1.tar.gz & xfcee4-4.4.2-installer.run to have some kinda good desktop environment.I have burned these into a CD.I am finding difficulty installing it directly from a CD.

First I have mounted my CD using the mount command.So the CD is mounted.Now i want to install either xpde-o.5.1.tar.gz or xfcee4-4.4.2-installer.run from the CD directly.Can someone help me in the installation of any of these....???? I want to know the command for installation directly from the cd....

Also i read the wiki section of arch linux about the xfce desktop installation  but i did not succeed.So plzz help...

Thanks.

skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

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Re: desktop installation question...

Doing this as root will pull down an entire XFCE desktop from the repos:

pacman -S xfce4

What went wrong when you tried before?

Last edited by skottish (2007-12-25 05:08:09)

synorgy

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Registered: 2005-07-11

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Re: desktop installation question...

If you're running on low memory, one of the *boxes may be a good idea (paired with nitrogen & lxpanel). You can install all of these with:

pacman -S openbox nitrogen lxpanel

and then edit your ~/.Xinitrc to have:

nitrogen --restore &
exec openbox & lxpanel

Should work like a charm. Run nitrogen once to set a wallpaper, and it will reset everytime you issue 'startx' to log in.

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