Installation Q: xfce 4.3x on a Debian Stable Stable?

[Aaron Cohen]

Installation Q: xfce 4.3x on a Debian Sarge Stable?

Anyone have some straightforward info on getting the right files and libraries (at one place) for installing the downloadable xfce 4.3x onto such a system, maybe even pkgs that work?
It has GNOME running great.... surely just a n00B here.  
Have gone through quite a bit of DLL-Hell already..er...
"Kafkaesque libraries-searching".

kernel is 2.6.16-2, gcc is 4.1.2, what more could one ask for....?

>From Installation guide section at http://www.xfce.org/index.php?page=documentation&lang=en
--- Begin Quote
There are at least three ways to install Xfce :

    * from source code, building the environment by yourself.
    * using the binaries provided for your OS, see the download page to find them.
    * using the graphical installer provided by os-cillation; see this page for download links and instructions.
--- End Quote

* clear, straightforward source-code compile instructions?
three-four pages of pre, main, and post-installation instructions, no explanation of which files get chmod'ed to x or run as su, no clear way of "one-stop-shopping" for all the necessary libs and gtk+ permutations? do some of the downloadable links in the above site really take you to the home pages rather than straight to the library 'download' sections??
* binaries for Debian Sarge Stable?? where?
* os-cillation graphical installer link at http://www.xfce.org/index.php?page=documentation&lang=en
is a dead "404" page.

Hunted further and found Benedikt Meurer's http://www.xfce.org/documentation/installers/xfce/ page.
And just where exactly are all the ingredients, a.k.a., files for the 'Preparations', 'The Graphical Installation Wizard' and the extensive 'Postinstallation tasks' sections ??  More fishing around ??

Is this even worth it to try xfce further, without having to install a more xfce-friendly distro such as Slackware, Xubuntu, Vector... etc. ??

Those Kafka "did you try this office, did you try that office" people....
:~



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