[SOLVED] How to activate Xfce4 desktop environment?
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No, the LibreOffice and Synaptic Package Manager come with this "task-xfce-desktop" package.
I just thought there was an option to select the "light" version of Xfce Desktop Environment, without much extras. What is difference between task-xfce-desktop and xfce4 packages?
xfce4, as stated, will pretty much be the bare essentials.
task-xfce-desktop will install Iceweasel (Firefox), LibreOffice and some other packages as well.
That is the X i mentioned before. X is the graphics rendering system under Linux (right now, there are replacements in the works), which most DEs use to render their graphics. You need it to run XFCE and other DEs on Debian.
purge removes all configuration files. It will not remove per-user files, like bookmarks, etc. For that you'll have to delete the .mozilla subdirectory in your home directory.
purge removes all configuration files. It will not remove per-user files, like bookmarks, etc. For that you'll have to delete the .mozilla subdirectory in your home directory.
The .mozilla subdirectory is in cache, should I remove it?
I installed midori, there was some info notes during installation:
Code:
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libevent-2.0-5 libmozjs24d xulrunner-24.0
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
... ...
rmdir: failed to remove `/etc/xdg/midori/extensions/libadblock.so': No such file or directory
root@debian:~#
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There is the option of not installing either of those packages and simply installing all the Xfce packages you want manually. This would be a very large list but it can be done.
I make sure that I have a /etc/apt/apt.conf file created with;
Code:
APT::Install-Recommends "false";
in existence, run;
Code:
apt-get update
to get apt to know that it is there and then use the Xfce4 meta package.
This will give you the basic packages and their depends but none of the recommends packages. Those will be listed as recommends when you get your list of packages to be installed and you can make a note of any you may want and install them manually.
If you no longer wish to use Iceweasel or Icedove, you can safely remove those directories.
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I installed midori, there was some info notes during installation:
Code:
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libevent-2.0-5 libmozjs24d xulrunner-24.0
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
... ...
rmdir: failed to remove `/etc/xdg/midori/extensions/libadblock.so': No such file or directory
root@debian:~#
Should I remove above packages?
You can safely remove those packages, they were installed as dependencies to Iceweasel and are no longer needed.
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