Install Xfce in an already installed system

Optional: If you want to uninstall GNOME and its dependencies first, do:


aptitude purge `dpkg --get-selections | grep gnome | cut -f 1`aptitude -f installaptitude purge `dpkg --get-selections | grep deinstall | cut -f 1`aptitude -f install


To install Xfce, do the following:


apt-get install xfce4


This will install a metapackage, which will install the core Xfce modules and scripts to get it to work.


There are many useful utilities that come with Xfce, to install these:

apt-get install xfce4-goodies