Re: Ailing MATE desktop [SOLVED]

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On Thu, 2020-05-14 at 16:12 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 05:24:13AM -0500, Robert G (Doc) Savage via
> CentOS wrote:
> > > > If you look at the listing attached to my last message, you'll
> > > > see
> > > > three different groups of packages:
> > > > 
> > > > Removing:
> > > >   xxx
> > > > Removing dependent packages:
> > > >   xxx
> > > > Removing unused dependencies:
> > > >   xxx
> > > > 
> > > > I don't understand the meaning of the last group of "unused
> > > > dependencies".
> > > > 
> As I understand them, dependent packages are dependent on MATE.
> If MATE goes away they are useless.
> 
> Dependencies are packages MATE is dependent upon.  Other things
> may also be dependent on those packages.
> 
> Unused dependencies are things that if MATE were removed have
> no other packages dependent on them.  So MAYBE they are no longer
> needed and can be removed.
> 
> But be careful with these.  Nothing may depend upon them, but you
> may use them.  First in your list is ImageMagick.  You may use this
> whether MATE is there or not.
> 
> The "--noautoremove option prevents removal of "unused dependencies".
> You can then take your list and see which you really don't need and
> remove them separately.
> 
> Jon

Jon,

You have nailed the obscure but critical element for removing a damaged
MATE installation. The --noautoremove option made everything else
possible:

# dnf erase *mate* --noautoremove --skip-broken

This removes all of the front line MATE packages and their direct
dependencies. All are in the COPR repository.

I just ran that command followed by a fresh re-install of MATE 1.22
using the instructions at 
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/stenstorp/MATE/.

When I logged out of GNOME3 and logged back in using the re-installed
MATE, all is well again.

I think I owe you a beer or two Jon. Thanks very much.

--Doc Savage
  Fairview Heights, IL

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