These procedures have been tested with the following distributions:

  •  Fedora Core 3, 4, 5 and 6
  •  Open Suse 10.1
  •  SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10
  •  Ubuntu 6.06, 6.10
  • Xubuntu 6.06, 6.10
  •  Kubuntu 6.06, 6.10
  •  Debian Testing (Etch)

Installing using the lxp-setup script 

1.- Download the latest version of the script: lxp-setup

2.- login as "root" or use the sudo command if your system is set up that way and execute: 

    # sh path_to_script/lxp-setup

 This scripts also removes the lxp packages.

Installing using DEBs

1.- Download and install the window manager

NB: You must install the imlib11 package on your system in order to install lxp-icewm. You also need to remove any other versions of icewm.

lxp-icewm_1.2.20-xx_i386.deb

2.- Optional: Download and install the icon manager if you want icons on your desktop.

NB: You must have the libimlib2 library installed on your system in order to install idesk.

lxp-idesk_0.7.5-xx_i386.deb

3.- Download and install the LXP package

lxp_0.1-xx_i386.deb

!! Now you can logon in your computer selecting the LXP session in your login screen. !!

4.- Optional: if you want to have the Gnome menus in the LXP  main menu, you can download and install the following, but this is not really necesary since lxp includes a better script to generate menus:

lxp-icewm-with_gnome2_1.2.20-xx_i386.deb

5.- Optional: download and install the file manager, only if you want an Windows Explorer clone.

lxp-xfe_0.88-xx_i386.deb

Previously you have to install the fox-1.4.x library.

fox_1.4.9-1_i386.deb

6.- Optional: install the Xdialog utility if you would like a pop-up calendar when clicking the clock on the taskbar.

# apt-get install xdialog 

7.- Optional:  install the xosview utility (clicking on the cpu graph in the notification area of the taskbar will launch it)

# apt-get install xosview 

 

Installing using RPMs

1.- Download and install the necesary window manager packages

You must have previously installed the imlib-1.9.X library on your system to install icewm

icewm-1.2.20.LXP-xx.Fedora-fc3-fc4-fc5.i386.rpm or icewm-1.2.20.LXP-xx.Suse.10.1.i586.rpm

icewm-themes-1.2.20.LXP-xx.i386.rpm

2.- Optional: Download and install the icon manager if you want icons on your desktop

You must have previously installed the imlib2-1.2.x library on your system to install idesk

idesk-0.7.5-LXP.i386.rpm

3.- Download and install the LXP package

lxp-0.1-xx.i386.rpm

!! Now you can logon in your computer selecting the LXP session in your login screen. !!

4.- Optional: if you want to have the Gnome menus in the LXP  main menu download and install:

icewm-menu-gnome2-1.2.20.LXP-xx.i386.rpm

5.- Optional: download and install the file manager, only if you want an Windows Explorer clone.

xfe-0.88.LXP-xx.i386.rpm

You must previously install the fox-1.4.x library. Download it from any dag mirror i.e.:

http://mirrors.ircam.fr/pub/dag/dries/packages/fox/fc3-i386/fox-1.4.27-1.1.fc3.rf.i386.rpm

6.- Optional: Download and install the Xdialog utility (the clock on the taskbar uses this utility to display a calendar)

http://thgodef.nerim.net/xdialog/glibc-2.3.4/Xdialog-2.2.1-1.i386.rpm

7.- Optional: Download and install the xosview utility (clicking on  the cpu graph in the notification area of the taskbar will launch it)

http://dag.wieers.com/packages/xosview/xosview-1.8.2-1.1.fc3.rf.i386.rpm

8.- Optional: Download and install other languages for the window manager (only if you want other languages besides English)

icewm-l10n-1.2.20.LXP-xx.i386.rpm


Installing from sources

1.- icewm+LXP installation

You must install imlib and imlib-devel previously.

Download the source package: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/lxp/icewm-1.2.20.LXP.tar.gz

# tar xvzf icewm-1.2.20.LXP.tar.gz

# cd icewm-1.2.20.LXP

If you have installed gnome-devel packages run:

# ./configure --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --with-docdir=/usr/share/doc --enable-lookxp --enable-gradients –enable-menus-gnome2

else

# ./configure --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --with-docdir=/usr/share/doc --enable-lookxp --enable-gradients

# make && make install

2.- lxp installation

Downliad sources: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/lxp/lxp-0.1.tar.gz

# tar xvzf lxp-01.tar.gz

# ./confiure –prefix=/usr –exec-prefix=/usr

#  make && make install

3.- idesk+LXP installation

Download sources: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/lxp/idesk-0.7.5-LXP.tar.gz

# tar xvzf idesk-0.7.5-LXP.tar.gz

# ./confiure –prefix=/usr –exec-prefix=/usr

# make && make install

4.- xfe+LXP installation

Install fox-1.4.x and fox-devel

Downliad sources: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/lxp/xfe-0.88.LXP.tar.gz

# tar xvzf xfe-0.88.LXP.tar.gz

# ./confiure –prefix=/usr –exec-prefix=/usr

# make && make install