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:
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/
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!!!
Cheers,
Dave
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