{"id":31976,"date":"2018-11-02T18:20:58","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T12:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/?p=31976"},"modified":"2018-11-02T18:20:58","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T12:50:58","slug":"how-to-install-xfce-desktop-on-ubuntu-16-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/how-to-install-xfce-desktop-on-ubuntu-16-04\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Install Xfce Desktop on Ubuntu 16.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>How to Install Xfce Desktop on Ubuntu 16.04<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Since 1996, <strong>XFCE Desktop<\/strong> offers users the flexibility to own a <strong>graphical programme<\/strong> (GUI) surroundings, visually turning your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/zip-and-unzip-unix-command-line\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UNIX<\/a> operating system server into associate degree surroundings additional like your personal computer. With its essential look, XFCE doesn&#8217;t weigh significant on the server\u2019s hardware and is quicker than GNOME and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/how-to-install-kde-on-ubuntu-16-04-and-ubuntu-16-10\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KDE<\/a> also. Once completed with this little tutorial, you\u2019ll be able to share and connect with the <strong>XFCE GUI<\/strong> by continued to future tutorial on the way to <strong>Install VNC.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"pre-flight\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Pre-flight<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>These instructions are intended for <strong>installing Xfce Desktop<\/strong> Environment on an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/hack-wifi-passwords-ubuntu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ubuntu 16.04<\/a> LTS server.<\/li>\n<li>Logged in as a <strong>root user<\/strong>, but for non-root users precede all commands with the word <strong>sudo<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"installation-of-xfce\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Installation of Xfce<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"step-1-update-apt-get\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Step 1:<\/span> <span style=\"color: #808000;\">Update apt-get<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>With best practices in mind, we will update before proceeding to <strong>install XFCE 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"code-embed-wrapper\"> <div class=\"code-embed-infos\"> <\/div> <pre class=\"language-less code-embed-pre line-numbers\"  data-start=\"1\" data-line-offset=\"0\"><code class=\"language-less code-embed-code\">apt-get update<\/code><\/pre> <\/div>\n<h3 id=\"step-2-install-xfce4-desktop-environment\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Step 2:<\/span> <span style=\"color: #808000;\">Install XFCE4 Desktop Environment<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>With <strong>one command<\/strong> we can install <strong>Xfce<\/strong> itself and some useful utilities that come with Xfce:<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-embed-wrapper\"> <div class=\"code-embed-infos\"> <\/div> <pre class=\"language-less code-embed-pre line-numbers\"  data-start=\"1\" data-line-offset=\"0\"><code class=\"language-less code-embed-code\">apt-get install -y xfce4 xfce4-goodies<\/code><\/pre> <\/div>\n<h2 id=\"deletion-of-xfce\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Deletion of Xfce<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"step1\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>Step1:<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Run each of these commands so that <strong>apt-get<\/strong> can utilize them during the <strong>purge of Xfce<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-embed-wrapper\"> <div class=\"code-embed-infos\"> <\/div> <pre class=\"language-less code-embed-pre line-numbers\"  data-start=\"1\" data-line-offset=\"0\"><code class=\"language-less code-embed-code\">apt-get -f install<br\/>apt-get clean<br\/>apt-get autoclean<br\/>apt-get update<\/code><\/pre> <\/div>\n<h3 id=\"step2\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>Step2:<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 id=\"purge-xfce-from-your-ubuntu-server\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Purge Xfce from your Ubuntu server:<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<div class=\"code-embed-wrapper\"> <div class=\"code-embed-infos\"> <\/div> <pre class=\"language-less code-embed-pre line-numbers\"  data-start=\"1\" data-line-offset=\"0\"><code class=\"language-less code-embed-code\">apt-get purge xfce4<\/code><\/pre> <\/div>\n<p>As mentioned in our paragraph\u00a0succeeding\u00a0step is to\u00a0piece\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/handle-functionality-vnc-remote-desktop-using-linux\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VNC<\/a> (<strong>virtual network computing<\/strong>)\u00a0putting in\u00a0VNC\u00a0is critical\u00a0to open the recently\u00a0put in\u00a0Xfce interface. It\u2019s\u00a0elective\u00a0however\u00a0suggested\u00a0to line\u00a0up an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/tutorials\/linux\/how-to-download-a-file-from-server-using-ssh-in-linux\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SSH tunnel<\/a> that connects to VNC for a secure\u00a0association.\u00a0look into\u00a0our\u00a0cognitive content\u00a0on\u00a0the topic\u00a0of VNC\u00a0to seek out your\u00a0selection\u00a0of articles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Install Xfce Desktop on Ubuntu 16.04 Since 1996, XFCE Desktop offers users the flexibility to own a graphical programme (GUI) surroundings, visually turning your UNIX operating system server into associate degree surroundings additional like your personal computer. With its essential look, XFCE doesn&#8217;t weigh significant on the server\u2019s hardware and is quicker than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5739,85748],"tags":[86047,86048,86049,86050,86051,86052,86053,86054,86055,86056,86057,86058,86059,86060,86061,86062,86063,86064,86065,86066],"class_list":["post-31976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","category-ubuntu","tag-how-to-install-xfce-ubuntu-16","tag-how-to-start-xfce4-on-ubuntu","tag-how-to-use-xfce","tag-install-xfce-ubuntu-16-04-server","tag-install-xfce-ubuntu-server","tag-install-xubuntu","tag-start-xfce-ubuntu-server","tag-ubuntu-16-04-install-xfce","tag-ubuntu-18-04-install-xfce","tag-ubuntu-18-04-xfce","tag-ubuntu-install-xfce","tag-xfce-home","tag-xfce-ubuntu","tag-xubuntu","tag-xubuntu-18-04-download","tag-xubuntu-download","tag-xubuntu-server","tag-xubuntu-vs-ubuntu","tag-xubuntu-desktop","tag-xubuntu-desktop-vs-xfce4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}