*** I'll remind people that my tangential offshoot of this
thread is with Fedora 17. ***
Allegedly, on or about 18 January 2013, David sent:
> You will not be offered a choice of desktops unless you have more than
> one installed. From the way you describe what you have done you do not
> have the Mate desktop installed. Just a few pieces of it. Look here.
>
> yum grouplist
Installed Groups:
Administration Tools
Design Suite
Development Tools
Dial-up Networking Support
Editors
Fonts
GNOME Desktop Environment
Games and Entertainment
Graphical Internet
Graphics
Hardware Support
Input Methods
Java
Legacy Fonts
Mail Server
Milkymist
Network Servers
Office/Productivity
Printing Support
Robotics
Server Configuration Tools
Sound and Video
System Tools
Text-based Internet
Window Managers
X Window System
Available Groups:
Authoring and Publishing
Base
Books and Guides
Cloud Infrastructure
Clustering
DNS Name Server
Development Libraries
Directory Server
Dogtag Certificate System
Educational Software
Electronic Lab
Engineering and Scientific
FTP Server
Fedora Eclipse
Fedora Packager
Font design and packaging
GNOME Software Development
Haskell
Java Development
KDE Software Compilation
KDE Software Development
LXDE
Legacy Network Server
Legacy Software Development
LibreOffice Development
Medical Applications
MeeGo NetBook UX Environment
MinGW cross-compiler
MySQL Database
News Server
OCaml
Perl Development
PostgreSQL Database
Ruby
Somali Support
Sugar Desktop Environment
Virtualization Client
Web Development
Web Server
Windows File Server
X Software Development
XFCE Software Development
Xfce
Done
No sign of Mate, in either list. Nonetheless, I tried the following:
> yum groupinstall "Mate Desktop" (note the quote marks)
And got the response I expected:
Warning: Group Mate Desktop does not exist.
No packages in any requested group available to install or update
By the way, lots of mirrors seem to be non-responsive, this morning. It
took quite some time for either command line to complete.
--
[tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 3.6.11-1.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Dec 17 22:16:35 UTC 2012 x86_64
All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point
trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the
public lists.
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