How to install Xfce without xubuntu-desktop or ubuntustudio-desktop

**ZDroid** · December 2nd, 2012

I want to install Xfce without xubuntu-desktop or ubuntustudio-desktop (original Xfce 4.10, without extras). I too want to keep Unity (and Unity 2D) on my computer. Are the xfce-meta package great for that?
Thanks in advance!

**ajgreeny** · December 2nd, 2012

If this is on 12.04 you will need to enable the xfce4.10 ppa first then simply install xfce (maybe xfce4, I can't remember, and I'm on 10.04 at the moment).

As you suspect, that is a metapackage that tells the system what packages to install to give you xfce 4.10 without all the xubuntu apps that you may not wish to add.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1972548

**Cheesemill** · December 2nd, 2012

You could also try:

Code:

sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends xubuntu-desktop

This will install only the packages that are necessary for XFCE without pulling in all of the default Xubuntu applications.

**ibjsb4** · December 2nd, 2012

Why not just XFCE? Or does that package no longer exist in 12.10?

sudo apt-get install xfce

**Bucky Ball** · December 2nd, 2012

It is:

Code:

sudo apt-get install xfce4

That's it. Nothing else. That easy. Log out, choose from the Sessions pop-up. Log in. You're there ...

You can also search for xfce4 in Synaptic Package Manager or Software Centre and install from there.

**ibjsb4** · December 2nd, 2012

woops

**ZDroid** · December 2nd, 2012

Originally Posted by Bucky Ball

It is:

Code:

sudo apt-get install xfce4

That's it. Nothing else. That easy. Log out, choose from the Sessions pop-up. Log in. You're there ...

You can also search for xfce4 in Synaptic Package Manager or Software Centre and install from there.

Thanks! That works!