Install Latest Xfce Packages on Debian Testing

Recently I commented to them I had installed the latest versions of some components of Xfce in Archlinux, which have gradually emerged under the numbering 4.9 and that they will be a version prior to what we will have in the final version 4.10

Well, as I am now in Debian Testing I did not want to be left behind and I already installed:

• xfce4-panel 4.9.0
• xfce4-appfinder-4.9.3
• libxfce4ui-4.9.0

Let's see how.

Installing required packages.

To compile into Debian these packages of Xfce we have to install some necessary packages. We open a terminal and put:

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build-essential libx11-dev pkg-config libxfce4util-dev libgarcon-1-0-dev libxfce4ui-1-dev exo-utils libexo-1-dev libwnck-dev intltool

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Installing

Take for example xfce4-appfinder. xfce4-panel I do not take it as an example, since after installing, I had to put the previous panel back because it gave me an error that is in the process of being solved. However, the procedure is the same for the other applications. To do this we open a terminal and put:

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$ wget -c http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-appfinder/4.9/xfce4-appfinder-4.9.3.tar.bz2
$ bzip2 -dc xfce4-appfinder-4.9.3.tar.bz2 | tar -xv
$cd xfce4-appfinder-4.9.3

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The first thing we do is download the file. Then we unzip it and go to the folder where the files that we are going to install are located. What's next?

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$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

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Normally I do it this way:

$ ./configure && make && sudo make install

But you better do the ./configure before to see if we need to install any packages. This is enough. Now I am finding out what happens with the panel, that when I installed it it gave me this error when trying to execute it:

xfce4-panel: symbol lookup error: xfce4-panel: undefined symbol: xfce_panel_plugin_mode_get_type