{"id":4647,"date":"2015-02-08T19:06:11","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T19:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=4647"},"modified":"2015-02-08T19:06:11","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T19:06:11","slug":"install-lxqt-0-9-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2015\/02\/install-lxqt-0-9-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install or Upgrade to LXQt 0.9 in Ubuntu 14.04\/14.10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/lxqt-lubuntu-icon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/lxqt-lubuntu-icon.png\" alt=\"LXQt 0.9\" width=\"245\" height=\"245\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4648\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/lxqt-lubuntu-icon.png 245w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/lxqt-lubuntu-icon-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>LXQt 0.9, the lightweight desktop environment (merge between LXDE and Razor-qt), was released this Sunday. The new release drops Qt4 and now requires Qt5.<\/p>\n<p>Besides enforcing Qt5, LXQt 0.9 comes a new LXQt Frost theme, lots of UI and internal polishing and several new features. See the official <a href=\"http:\/\/lxqt.org\/releases\/\" title=\"LXQt release notes\" target=\"_blank\">release note<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/lxqt-0.9-ubuntu.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/lxqt-0.9-ubuntu-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"LXQt 0.9 in Ubuntu 14.04\" width=\"610\" height=\"342\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/lxqt-0.9-ubuntu-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/lxqt-0.9-ubuntu-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/lxqt-0.9-ubuntu.jpg 1366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Install \/ Upgrade LXQt 0.9 in Ubuntu:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>For (L)Ubuntu 14.04, (L)Ubuntu 14.10, and upcoming (L)Ubuntu 15.04 users, LXQt 0.9 has been made into PPA. Just follow below steps to install or upgrade it.<\/p>\n<p>1. Open terminal from the Dash or by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard. When it opens, run command to add <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~lubuntu-dev\/+archive\/ubuntu\/lubuntu-daily\" title=\"Lubuntu PPA\" target=\"_blank\">lubuntu daily build PPA<\/a>:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:lubuntu-dev\/lubuntu-daily<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/add-lxqt-ppa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/add-lxqt-ppa.jpg\" alt=\"LXQt PPA\" width=\"600\" height=\"207\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/add-lxqt-ppa.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/add-lxqt-ppa-300x103.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2. After that, update system package cache and install LXQt by running below two commands one by one:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get update\n\nsudo apt-get install lxqt-metapackage lxqt-panel openbox<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/install-lxqt-packages.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/install-lxqt-packages.jpg\" alt=\"install-lxqt-packages\" width=\"600\" height=\"158\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4651\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/install-lxqt-packages.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/install-lxqt-packages-300x79.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once the installation finished, log out and log in back with &#8220;LXQt Desktop&#8221; session and enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/lxqt-session-ubuntu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/lxqt-session-ubuntu.jpg\" alt=\"LXQt session in Ubuntu\" width=\"560\" height=\"321\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4652\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/lxqt-session-ubuntu.jpg 560w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/lxqt-session-ubuntu-300x171.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LXQt 0.9, the lightweight desktop environment (merge between LXDE and Razor-qt), was released this Sunday. The new release drops Qt4 and now requires Qt5. Besides enforcing Qt5, LXQt 0.9 comes a new LXQt Frost theme, lots of UI and internal polishing and several new features. See the official release note. Install \/ Upgrade LXQt 0.9 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1072],"class_list":["post-4647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-lxqt"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}