Installation

Note: lcarsde does not bring its own display manager. If one is required (e.g., a login screen is needed but not yet there), then install a display manager like GDM or SDDM additionally to lcarsde. With a display manager, lcarsde will be available in the window manager menu on the login screen.

Attention: If from the 23.* versions to 25.* version, the distribution changes! The applications are not installed via individual packages but through one package. Additionally, the audio widget of the status bar is configured differently. Therefore, you need to check the lcarsde related files in /etc/lcarsde and /etc/xdg/autostart. Replace the old files with the new ones, removing .dpkg-new from the file name and moving your old settings over if you adjusted anything. Remember to adjust also local configurations in ~/.config/lcarsde if you have that. You'll probably have to adjust the filenames in a fresh installation as well.

Distros

Ubuntu (22.04)

DEB packages for Ubuntu are available for all parts of lcarsde. The latest versions can be downloaded using the following links and installed with the software installer.

From source

The manual installation requires only a few steps to get started. First, download the latest releases of the following repositories:

lcarsde: https://github.com/lcarsde/lcarsde/releases
lcarsde-onboard-theme (optional): https://github.com/lcarsde/lcarsde-onboard-theme

Secondly, unpack the release packages.

Thirdly and finally, execute the install.sh script of lcarsde. For the onboard theme, follow the installation instructions in the README.md

Note: at the beginning of each installation, the dependencies are printed in the console. Please make sure those dependencies are installed as well.