Debian - Openbox Install

This last week I was trying to install openbox on a fresh install of Debian but ran into issues after running

$ apt-get install openbox

Doing a google search gave me several links of people suggesting that I compile openbox from source and that it is the only way to get it installed. After a little more research and help from Mike (thanks mike) I ended up doing the following:

$ apt-get install slim
$ apt-get install openbox menu

Did I really need to do two apt-get's? No, but I wanted to make sure that slim really was installed before moving on.

So, the first apt-get is to install slim which is a "graphical login manager for X11" (aptitude show slim).

The second apt-get is to install openbox itself and menu which is a "Debian menu [that] keeps transparently the menus in the different window-managers in sync with the list of installed programs." (aptitude show menu)

That is all you should have to install. Once you have installed these three items reboot the system and you should be presented with a login window. When you go to log in you will want to click on session and choose openbox, you should only have to do this once.

If you thought this was at all helpful please post a comment and let me know.