How to Install Plank Dock On Linux

Installing Plank Dock for Linux
Plank is meant to be the simplest dock which can be extended to create other dock programs with more advanced features. Installing Plank on Ubuntu from Repository

Installing Dependencies

# aptitude install automake gnome-common intltool \ 
pkg-config valac libbamf3-dev libdbusmenu-gtk3-dev \ 
libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev libgee-dev libglib2.0-dev libgtk-3-dev \ 
libwnck-3-dev libx11-dev libgee-0.8-dev

Dependency Requirements Listed

automake
gnome-common
intltool (>= 0.35) 
libtool 
pkg-config 
valac (>= 0.14.1) 
libbamf3-dev (>= 0.2.94) 
libdbusmenu-gtk3-dev (>= 0.6.2) (optional) 
libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev (>= 2.26.0) 
libgee-dev (>= 0.5.2) 
libglib2.0-dev (>= 2.32.0) 
libgtk-3-dev (>= 3.0.0) 
libwnck-3-dev 
libx11-dev

Install to Debian from Source
Using Debian 8:

# cat /etc/*release

Output

PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="8"
VERSION="8 (jessie)"
ID=debian
HOME_URL="http://www.debian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://www.debian.org/support/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/"

Download and Install Plank

# wget https://launchpad.net/plank/1.0/0.11.1/+download/plank-0.11.1.tar.xz
# tar xvf plank-0.11.1.tar.xz
# cd plank-0.11.1
# ./configure  
# make;make install

Update shared libraries

# ldconfig

Now just type:

# cp plank /usr/local/bin

Launch Plank

# plank

Alternative Install to Debian - Recommended
Add below to /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian stretch main

SID Repository   

Add below to /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian sid main

Update Packages List   

After adding 1 of the above repositories we can now update the deb package list

# apt-get update

Install docky and Plank

# apt-get docky plank

Answer Yes to the screen prompt like below example to restart services.

Type plank to start Plank

# plank

Adding Required Ubuntu / Mint Repository

# add-apt-repository ppa:ricotz/docky

Update Repository

# apt-get update

Installing docky

# apt-get install docky plank

Removing packages, run following

# apt-get remove --purge docky plank

Installing Plank with Ubuntu 15.10/16.04 Linux

Add ppa repository

# add-apt-repository ppa:docky-core/stable

Install plank

# apt-get update
# apt-get install plank docky
# plank

Installing plank on Fedora 23
Make sure you have EPEL installed 

Installing plank with Fedora is quite simply, can be install with a single command. Update system.

# yum update -y

Install plank

# yum install plank docky

Configure plank

# plank --preferences

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