Friday, June 13, 2008

Cairo-Dock for ubuntu

Do you use ubuntu and wish you could have a application dock like a mac does? Well you can with cairo-dock. Installation is simple and done best using terminal. Here I will show you how to do this.

UPDATE:In Ubuntu 9.04 you can get this dock via Synaptic.

*First open terminal located in Applications>accessories>terminal
Next type the following:

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



Next edit your sources list by typing:

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list


When the file opens scroll to the very bottom and add this line:

deb http://repository.cairo-dock.org/ubuntu hardy cairo-dock

save the file and close it.

Next type in:

sudo apt-get update
then



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


the dock should now download and install and is located under Applications>system


Hope this helps thanks for reading. If you have questions or need help please leave a comment.