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How to install Cairo Dock in Debian Lenny

Cairo Dock is a light eye-candy fully themable animated dock for any Linux desktop. It has a family-likeness with OSX dock, but with more options. This application will place many shortcut of your installed software so it will be easy to access. This tutorial will show you how to install Cairo Dock in Debian Lenny system.

1. First you need to edit the /etc/apt/sources.list and add the Cairo Dock repository line. You can use vi or gedit. In my case I use gedit to edit the sources.list

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

and add the following line:

deb http://repository.cairo-dock.org/debian stable cairo-dock

Then save and exit.

2. Now install the GPG key using this command

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

3. Then update your system.

sudo apt-get update

4. Finally install the Cairo Dock using single command below

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

5. Now you can run cairo-dock from Applications —> System tools—> cairo-Dock

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