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/fedor... and https://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/archive.fedoraproject.org/fedor...
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