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Latest revision as of 06:03, 23 May 2025

The Alpine Linux script for quickly setting up a desktop is:

# setup-desktop

On running the above command, you will be prompted to select a desktop environment.

Which desktop environment? ('gnome', 'plasma', 'xfce', 'mate', 'sway', 'lxqt' or 'none') [none]

Once you have chosen a desktop environment, this script installs the chosen desktop along with necessary packages, firefox browser and adds necessary services to run on startup. You can reboot when complete, and the system will boot into a graphical login screen with the chosen desktop environment, except for sway. To view the packages installed by the script: $ cat /usr/sbin/setup-desktop

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-{{Tip|Before installing a desktop, you may want to create a non-privileged [[Setting_up_a_new_user#Creating_a_new_user|user account]] for security reasons.}}
+The Alpine Linux script for quickly [[Alpine_setup_scripts#setup-desktop|setting up a desktop]] is:{{Cmd|# setup-desktop}}
-<br>
-{{Note|To Install any desktop environment, ensure that <code>community</code> repository is [[Repositories#Managing_repositories|enabled]].}}
-= Quickstart Installation =
+On running the above command, you will be prompted to select a desktop environment.{{Cmd|Which desktop environment? ('gnome', 'plasma', 'xfce', 'mate', 'sway', 'lxqt' or 'none') [none]}}
-The Alpine Linux utility for setting up any desktop quickly is <code>setup-desktop</code>. Most commonly used desktop environements can be quickly installed with this utility, which is part of the standard Alpine Linux installation package {{pkg|alpine-conf|repo=main}}.
+Once you have chosen a desktop environment, this script installs the chosen desktop along with necessary packages, {{pkg|firefox|repo=community}} browser and adds necessary services to run on startup. You can reboot when complete, and the system will boot into a graphical login screen with the chosen desktop environment, except for [[Sway#Setup-desktop|sway]]. To view the packages installed by the script: {{Codeline|$ cat /usr/sbin/setup-desktop}}
-{{Cmd|# setup-desktop}}
-On running the above command, you will be prompted for the desktop name.
-{{Cmd|Which desktop environment? ('gnome', 'plasma', 'xfce', 'mate', 'sway' or 'none') [none]}}
-Once you have chosen the chosen desktop environment, this utility installs the chosen desktop with all the necessary dependencies, standard utilities and commonly used applications along with {{pkg|firefox|repo=main}} as browser. This utility also activates the necessary initrc services like dbus etc..
-To view all the packages that are installed by the utility for the chosen desktop you can issue the below command:
-{{Cmd|# cat /sbin/setup-desktop}}