On 1/18/2013 9:18 PM, David wrote: > 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. > MY typo here!! *" don't recall Mate being available for Fedora 18 as I described.*" should read *...Fedora 17*. Sorry about that. -- 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
