Bill Davidsen wrote: > Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 09/17/2012 08:29 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: >>> I got some questions about MATE and wanted to install it and actually >>> see how it worked. I started with a machine on fc17, which had Cinnamon >>> and XFCE installed. After doing the yum install, I don't see MATE in the >>> list of managers available at login. Before I spend a lot of time in >>> documentation, it this normal? Does it not drop in like KDE, etc? >>> >> >> MATE is not currently in the Fedora repositories. >> > Okay, that explaines it, I thought the stuff called mate-window-manager, > which really is most definitely in the Fedora repositories, was the mate I > wanted. > mate-window-manager.i686 1.4.0-3.fc17 > updates > mate-window-manager-devel.i686 1.4.0-3.fc17 > updates > mate-window-manager-libs.i686 1.4.0-3.fc17 > updates > > So what on Earth is the stuff in the repository, then? Some intermediate f17 packages made their way into updates as a way to test things for the ongoing f18 feature efforts. for better or worse, this conflicted with the obs/dropbox mate repo packages, so we (fedora) aren't adding any new packages to f17, at least until the f18 efforts are 100% complete. >> FYI.... http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/MATE-Desktop contains the >> status for inclusion of MATE in F18. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
