{"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\u2019t 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[pastacode lang=\u201dless\u201d manual=\u201dapt-get%20update\u201d message=\u201d\u201d highlight=\u201d\u201d provider=\u201dmanual\u201d\/]\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[pastacode lang=\u201dless\u201d manual=\u201dapt-get%20install%20-y%20xfce4%20xfce4-goodies\u201d message=\u201d\u201d highlight=\u201d\u201d provider=\u201dmanual\u201d\/]\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[pastacode lang=\u201dless\u201d manual=\u201dapt-get%20-f%20install%0Aapt-get%20clean%0Aapt-get%20autoclean%0Aapt-get%20update\u201d message=\u201d\u201d highlight=\u201d\u201d provider=\u201dmanual\u201d\/]\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[pastacode lang=\u201dless\u201d manual=\u201dapt-get%20purge%20xfce4\u2033 message=\u201d\u201d highlight=\u201d\u201d provider=\u201dmanual\u201d\/]\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\u2019t 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}]}}