installing cairo dock w/ Xfce

[vinoman]

I running F15 w/ Xfce and I wanted to know how to install cairo dock and if it works well with Xfce?

[cymbaline42]

Run in terminal: su -c 'yum install cairo-dock'

If you prefer GUI, open Add/Remove Software and search for 'cairo-dock'

[vinoman]

Thanks, I like using the command line. What does the -c do? as opposed to # yum install cairo-dock?

Once its installed, does it just take over the standard Xfce dock? Can you go back to it later if you like?

[DBelton]

you also have to have the rpmfusion repo's installed since cairo-dock is there and not in the standard fedora repo.


su -c 'yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm'


Edit:

The su -c passes a single command to the shell
it is basically identical to:

su
(root password)
yum install cairo-dock
exit

[cymbaline42]

'-c' gives you superuser privileges for that ONE command only.

It doesn't replace it, they can run together. You can either autohide or close the XFCE default panel while cairo-dock is running.

[MeMechant]

Hi,

If i want to remove cairo-dock it seems that "sudo yum remove cairo-dock" doesn't do the trick? what command should i use ? I use the install method describe in this post.

[blittle]

The command is

yum erase [package]

So you'd need to do:

sudo yum erase cairo-dock

[ozjd]

The command is

yum erase [package]

So you'd need to do:

sudo yum erase cairo-dock

According to 'man yum' remove and erase are identical. Either should work.