IMPORTANT : YOU NEED TO HAVE A ROOT ACCESS
TO INSTALL XFCE PROPERLY.
1) Requirements
Visit the download page to get the sources.
1.a) Linux
XFce compiles out of the box on most Linux distributions. Although, some distributions do not provide the latest version for Xpm librariy (libXpm). On Debian, for exemple, you'll have to install xpm4g-dev and xpm4-altdev otherwise xfwm will core dump at startup.
You'll need the XForms library for your system (libc5 or libc6). Using the wrong library can cause some oddities such as wrong time displayed in XFce clock or directories full of "D.." !
1.b) SUN Solaris (tm)
To compile XFce on SUN Solaris, you'll need the GNU tools :
These applications can be freely downloaded from SUN or most SUNSite mirrors.
Of course, you'll also need XForms for Solaris.
2) Installing from a tar archive
Once you've retrieved the archive, ie a file that sounds like xfce-2.?.?.tar.gz,
Untar the source file :
To compile and install XFCE, just type
7) Choose your default language
Language is defined through the environment variable XFCE_LANG :