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Hey all

Today I bought a acer aspire one. Its great but I don't know how to install software on it, i found this site and many like it http://www.laptopmag.com/advice/how-to/aspire-one-apps.aspx?
but where it tells me to enter the command

xfce-setting-show

the terminal comes back with

env: xfce-mcs-manager: No such file or directory

I have googled the problem but no answers have appeared yet.
Does anyone know what I have to do to get this to work?

Many thanks

HLA91

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Short diagnosis and where this usually comes from — ’s failure to open the XFCE settings tool means the settings-manager program the desktop expects isn’t installed (or it’s not in your PATH). On an Acer Aspire One many netbook images are deliberately trimmed, so the GUI settings front-end can be missing even though the rest of XFCE is present.

If you’re on an Ubuntu-based install (the thread is tagged Ubuntu), install or reinstall the XFCE settings package with the distribution’s package tools. From a terminal you can refresh package lists and install the settings package, for example:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install xfce4-settings

If the package is already present, reinstall it:

sudo apt install --reinstall xfce4-settings

You can check whether the settings binary exists with command -v xfce4-settings-manager (or the equivalent which command). If you prefer GUI methods, use the Software Center or Synaptic and search for “Xfce Settings” — and, as noted, the desktop run-dialog (Alt+F2) will launch the settings tool when it’s installed.

A couple of practical notes tied to replies already here: ’s instructions apply to RPM-based distributions (Fedora/RHEL/CentOS). Don’t try RPM/YUM commands on Ubuntu. Also avoid using low-level package database hacks on Debian/Ubuntu unless you know the consequences — they can leave your package system broken. If problems persist, report your distro/release (output of lsb_release -a) and the output of dpkg -l | grep xfce so others can diagnose missing package names for your release.

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you need to reinstall xfce-mcs-plugins and xfce-mcs-manager (in that order). on mine reinstall didnt work so I used the following commands:

rpm -e --justdb --nodeps xfce-mcs-plugins
yum install xfce-mcs-plugins
rpm -e --justdb --nodeps xfce-mcs-manager
yum install xfce-mcs-manager

Member Avatar for sam0802

or instead do this -
Alt + F2
then
xfce-setting-show
instead of in terminal

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