Xfce not installing | Alpine Linux forums

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#1 Tue, 2016-03-01 19:56

zulubunsen

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I'm new to Alpine, so I'd appreciate some help. After a fresh install in Virtualbox, I attempted to install Xfce as per the wiki's instructions. However, when attempting the "apk add alpine-desktop xfce4" command, I'm greeted with the following error:

ERROR: unsatisfiable constraints:
     alpine-desktop (missing):
        required by: world[alpine-desktop]

I've attempted to change the mirrors, which does nothing but add yet another error message:
"WARNING: Ignoring APKINDEX.88d68c55.tar.gz: No such file or directory"

Anyone have any suggestions?

#2 Sun, 2016-03-06 22:28

J65nko

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I also new and ran into this same issue yesterday ;) Instead of apk add alpine-desktop xfce4 I used apk xfce4.
That installed Xfce4 successfully.

Because I installed Alpine as a Linux KVM guest, I ran into issue #4058. (Xorg Cirrus driver not working in KVM). So I have not been able to test any further.

#3 Sat, 2016-07-09 19:45

jc86

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Hello,

I just ran into the same problem.

1. Uncomment the community in the repositories
2. apk update
3. apk add alpine-desktop
4. apk add xfce4

#4 Fri, 2016-08-12 23:06

ginjachris

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Yeah this is partly my fault, I last updated the wiki page ages ago and alpine-desktop doesn't seem to exist anymore. I did, however, get a working VM xfce4 desktop earlier today without adding 'alpine-desktop' (just xfce4 seemed to be enough). I'll try and run a proper test again, documenting my steps, in the coming weeks and update the wiki.
Seems the faenza icon theme is also gone now (or maybe renamed).