Update fluxbox

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1 Getting fluxbox Updated

Getting fluxbox Updated

Using Gentoo

To get your fluxbox updated on gentoo simply just

 emerge -u fluxbox

Many times the latest fluxbox is masked so you may need to unmask the package to get the newest one in the portage tree. To unmask fluxbox simply

 echo x11-wm/fluxbox >> /etc/portage/package.keywords

This will make the latest and greatest fluxbox in portage unmasked for you to emerge

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Using Ubuntu

Ubuntu at times will have a package thats not as new as you would like. This is not a problem. Dopey happens to be the offical maintainer of the debian and ubuntu packages and he hangs out in fluxbox irc so he knows when a new release is made and accordingly he makes a package we can use. If you already have an older version of flxbox installed I would reccomend removing it first using either synaptic or manually doing so using apt-get. First lets get the new package we will be installing. Open your browser and surf to

 http://logicvortex.net/debian/fluxbox/

This is dopeys site where you will find his latest packages for fluxbox. Next you should get the latest package for you distro, make sure if you are using ubuntu to get the ubuntu package and not the one marked for debian users. I like to keep my packages in my home folder so open a terminal and type:

 mkdir -p ~/packages/fluxbox

Next simply

 cd ~/packages/fluxbox && wget http://people.debian.org/~dopey/fluxbox/ubuntu-breezy/fluxbox_0.9.14-1_i386.deb

Now you have the deb downloaded, and its time to remove your old version. As sudo (or root)

 apt-get remove fluxbox

This will remove fluxbox from your system. If you happen to have the 0.9.12 package installed and have troubles with your menu and keys file, and have not done any customizing to your fluxbox that you dont mind loosing I would highly reccomend just deleting your ~/.fluxbox/ directory. If you dont wish to do this its not required but the fixes that have been made to this new package will not go itno effect on your new fluxbox unless you do this.

 rm -rf ~/.fluxbox/

Now you are ready to install the new version. remember we havnet moved out of the download directory yet so now as sudo (or root) just run

 dpkg -i fluxbox_0.9.14-1_i386.deb

And this will install the new version of fluxbox you just downloaded. If you did follow the guide and removed the ~/.fluxbox/ dir a new one was created and now you have a menu that will auto update each time you use apt-get to install and remove a package.

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