CairoDock on Debian Lenny (like dock in Mac OS X)

Posted by Rakesh under Howto, Uncategorized

Cairo-Dock is an animated application launch bar for the desktop, comparable to the dock in Mac OS X or Rocket Dock (for Windows). Now, you can use Cairo-Dock with OpenGL (to use your graphic card!). Some screenshots

It is compatible with Compiz-Fusion, Beryl, Compiz and Xcompmgr, but it can also run without a composite manager (using fake transparency). Cairo-Dock can run under GNOME, KDE and XFCE.

Installation with one copy-paste

If you don’t want to learn more about the installation or if you want install quickly the dock, copy-paste all this box in a terminal

su -s


[code]read -p "Write 'stable' or 'unstable' (without quotes) in order to choose the repository : " cd_release[/code]

read -p "Write 'stable' or 'unstable' (without quotes) in order to choose the repository : " cd_release

echo "deb http://repository.cairo-dock.org/debian $cd_release cairo-dock ## Cairo-Dock-Stable" | tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
wget -q http://repository.cairo-dock.org/cairo-dock.gpg -O- | apt-key add -
apt-get update
apt-get install cairo-dock cairo-dock-plug-ins

Installation with details

It is highly recommended to download a signed key for authentication. It will also remove the error message to inform you about security issue. To download and install the key just run the following command in a terminal:

wget -q http://repository.cairo-dock.org/cairo-dock.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -

Edit your sources.list (sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list) and add the following line:

For stable release (lenny) :
deb http://repository.cairo-dock.org/debian stable cairo-dock

For unstable release (squeeze or sid) :
deb http://repository.cairo-dock.org/debian unstable cairo-dock

Then update your repository list and install cairo-dock and cairo-dock-plug-ins (it may install dependencies) :

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install cairo-dock cairo-dock-plug-ins

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