On 10/21/19 6:02 AM, David G. Miller wrote:
> On 10/11/19 7:46 PM, Robert G (Doc) Savage via CentOS wrote:
>> On Wed, 2019-09-25 at 15:25 +0200, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
>>> As of now, I have a working MATE DM on CentOS 8. It's a hack though,
>>> I
>>> used Fedora repositories. But that means compiling MATE in EPEL
>>> should
>>> be straightforward, just recompile Fedora 28 packages.
>>>
>>>
>>> I used Fedora 28 repo file and Fedora 28 GPG keys (links are
>>> bellow),
>>> unpacked then to proper directory and in Fedora repo files I changed
>>> "$releasever" to "28".
>>> I also installed yum-plugin-priorities and in all CentOS repo's added
>>> "priority=1" and in all Fedora repos added "priority=2".
>>>
>>> Then I ran following commands (something like this, I experimented
>>> some):
>>>
>>>
>>> yum install python2-six
>>> yum install mate* -x mate*devel* -x mate-menu
>>> yum groupinstall "MATE" --skip-broken
>>> yum groupinstall "MATE Desktop" --skip-broken
>>> echo "exec /usr/bin/mate-session" >> ~/.xinitrc
>>> reboot
>>> and then selected MATE in login screen.
>>>
>>>
>>> Links to rpm's:
>>> https://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/archive.fedoraproject.org/fedora/linux/releases/28/Everything/x86_64/os/Packages/f/fedora-repos-28-1.noarch.rpm
>>>
>>> and
>>> https://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/archive.fedoraproject.org/fedora/linux/releases/28/Everything/x86_64/os/Packages/f/fedora-gpg-keys-28-1.noarch.rpm
>>>
>>>
>>> List of installed packages from Fedora 28:
>>> https://pastebin.com/VXL03Uqj
>>>
>> Ljubomi,
>>
>> Hooray! I re-installed CentOS 8 to a fresh VM and went through your
>> instructions again. This time everything rebuilt and installed
>> correctly. Thank you!
>>
>> --Doc Savage
>> Fairview Heights, IL
>>
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> Ljubomi -
>
> A couple of minor tweaks:
>
> vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
> yum --skip-broken install mate\* -x mate\*devel\* -x mate-menu -x
> mate-optimus\*
> yum groupinstall "MATE" --skip-broken
> vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
> yum groupinstall "MATE Desktop" --skip-broken --exclude "*logos*"
>
> but otherwise working. Decided that I should see whether I could get
> MATE working on CentOS 8 before fiddling with Xfce. I now have a usable
> CentOS 8 desktop. Thank you!
>
> Cheers,
> Dave
>
Thanks Dave.
There is another option I posted in this general thread, a Fedora COPR
user has rebuilt MATE for EL8:
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/stenstorp/MATE/
--
Ljubomir Ljubojevic
(Love is in the Air)
PL Computers
Serbia, Europe
StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant
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