Install Plank 0.10.1 (Dock App) on Ubuntu / Linux Mint via PPA
How to Install Plank 0.10.1 (Dock App) on Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya and Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana derivative system via PPA
What Is Plank?
Plank is meant to be the simplest dock on the planet. The goal is to provide just what a dock needs and absolutely nothing more. It is, however, a library which can be extended to create other dock programs with more advanced features.
(Codenames for releases are currently based on the characters of "Ed, Edd n Eddy".)
Reporting Bugs
You can report bugs here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/plank
Please try and avoid making duplicate bugs - search for existing bugs before reporting a new bug!
You also might want to jump on our IRC channel (see below)
The latest version available is Plank 0.10.1 “Bartonschmeer”, which has been recently released, coming with the below changes:
- Require valac >= 0.24.0 as actually needed
- Correctly display filenames with underscores in folder-menu (LP: #1501499)
- plankdockitem: Open “preferences” on left-click instead of “about”
- Properly determine drop-position of external drags with enabled icon-zoom
- Update translations
Install Plank 0.10.1 (Dock App) on Ubuntu / Linux Mint via PPA
To Install Plank 0.10.1 (Dock App) on Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya and Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana derivative system via PPA, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:docky-core/stable
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install plank
To make plank run at reboot, create the below symlink:
$ sudo ln -s /usr/share/applications/plank.desktop /etc/xdg/autostart/
Optional, to remove plank, do:
$ sudo apt-get remove plank
The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.
