Re: Centos 8 Mate?

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On 10/21/19 9:41 PM, David G. Miller wrote:
> On 10/21/19 1:00 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
>> 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:
>>>
>>> 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/
>>
>>
> Saw that but I wanted to work through your original process with MATE
> before trying the same approach with Xfce  The good news is that I got
> the same results but with Xfce.  One different tweak to get around some
> additional conflicts between Fedora 28 Xfce and CentOS 8 Gnome:
> 
> yum groupinstall "Xfce" --skip-broken --exclude "*adwaita-gtk2-theme*"
> yum groupinstall "Xfce Desktop" --skip-broken --exclude
> "*adwaita-gtk2-theme*" --exclude"*logos*"
> 
> Also, I skipped the step analogous to:
> 
> yum install mate* -x mate*devel* -x mate-menu
> 
> since it seemed to be redundant with doing the group installs.  So, I
> now have two CentOS 8 VMs with neither using Gnome 3.
> 
> Thanks again!!!

Very nice. I'll see to post this in CentOS group on Facebook.

> 
> Cheers,
> Dave
> 


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Ljubomir Ljubojevic
(Love is in the Air)
PL Computers
Serbia, Europe

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