Download the pkges from berlios cairo repo, these: Cairo-dock (http://prdownload.berlios.de/cairo-dock/cairo-dock_v1.6.3.1_i686.deb) Plug-ins (http://prdownload.berlios.de/cairo-dock/cairo-dock-plug-ins_v1.6.3.1_i686.deb) Themes (http://prdownload.berlios.de/cairo-dock/cairo-dock-themes-1.6.3.1.tar.bz2) Copy/download them to ~/ or Home Now lets install, run this in terminal sudo dpkg -i cairo-dock_v1.6.3.1_i686.deb cairo-dock-plug-ins_v1.6.3.1_i686.deb After that run this in terminal tar xvjf cairo-dock-themes-1.6.3.1.tar.bz2 cd to pkg cairo-dock-themes-1.6.3.1 After that run: $./configure Then run: $ make Then: $ sudo make install And finaly: $ make clean Then run cairo-dock from menu.