On 1/18/2013 4:02 PM, Tim wrote: > *** 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. > The email that I replied to had a subject of : *A Look at Fedora 18*. So somehow I missed your question / problem about trying to install the Mate Desktop onto Fedora 17 inserted into a thread about "A Look at Fedora 18"?? I don't recall Mate being available for Fedora 18 as I described. I do know that with a little skill and abilities it could be added to Fedora 17. Perhaps you should update Fedora 18? A method which should be much easier for you to follow. -- David -- 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
