On Tue, 13 Nov 2012, Johnny Hughes wrote:

To: centos@centos.org From: Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] XFCE4 group missing on Centos 5.x?

On 11/13/2012 01:55 PM, Keith Roberts wrote:

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I had XFCE group installed and working on C5.8 32 bit.

I have done a fresh installation using the C 5.5 DVD.

I cannot seem to find the XFCE group now. Has this been removed from Centos 5.x ?

There is a version in CentOS Extras ... however, it is outdated.

I was going to upgrade it ... BUT ... I found that it is now being maintained in EPEL for EL5.

I would recommend that you use the EPEL version of XFCE.

Thanks Johnny.

This is what I'm getting now:

[root@karsites ~]# yum groupinfo XFCE Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities Setting up Group Process Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: mirror.for.me.uk * epel: mirrors.ukfast.co.uk * extras: mirror.for.me.uk * rpmforge: nl.mirror.eurid.eu * updates: mirror.for.me.uk Warning: Group XFCE does not exist.

I was installing xfce4 with:

yum -y groupinstall "XFCE"

Has the name been changed?

Keith

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On Tue, 13 Nov 2012, Johnny Hughes wrote:

To: centos@centos.org From: Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] XFCE4 group missing on Centos 5.x?

On 11/13/2012 02:41 PM, Keith Roberts wrote:

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On Tue, 13 Nov 2012, Johnny Hughes wrote:

...

To: centos@centos.org From: Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] XFCE4 group missing on Centos 5.x?

On 11/13/2012 01:55 PM, Keith Roberts wrote:

...

I had XFCE group installed and working on C5.8 32 bit.

I have done a fresh installation using the C 5.5 DVD.

I cannot seem to find the XFCE group now. Has this been removed from Centos 5.x ?

There is a version in CentOS Extras ... however, it is outdated.

I was going to upgrade it ... BUT ... I found that it is now being maintained in EPEL for EL5.

I would recommend that you use the EPEL version of XFCE.

Thanks Johnny.

This is what I'm getting now:

[root@karsites ~]# yum groupinfo XFCE Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities Setting up Group Process Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile

• base: mirror.for.me.uk
• epel: mirrors.ukfast.co.uk
• extras: mirror.for.me.uk
• rpmforge: nl.mirror.eurid.eu
• updates: mirror.for.me.uk

Warning: Group XFCE does not exist.

I was installing xfce4 with:

yum -y groupinstall "XFCE"

Has the name been changed?

The CentOS extras group name is:

XFCE-4.4

I don't think the EPEL version has groups.

[root@karsites ~]# yum groupinfo "XFCE-4.4" Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities Setting up Group Process Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: mirror.for.me.uk * epel: mirrors.ukfast.co.uk * extras: mirror.for.me.uk * rpmforge: nl.mirror.eurid.eu * updates: mirror.for.me.uk Warning: Group XFCE-4.4 does not exist.

Maybe it's been removed now from extras as it's old?

OK - got it now Johnny. So I just install every xfce* package from EPEL and that's dealt with it?

Name : xfce4-session Arch : i386 Version : 4.6.2 Release : 1.el5 Size : 662 k Repo : epel Summary : Xfce session manager URL : http://www.xfce.org/ License : GPLv2+ Description: xfce4-session is the session manager for the : Xfce desktop environment.

Kind Regards,

Keith

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On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 21:20:28 +0000 (GMT) Keith Roberts keith@karsites.net wrote:

On Tue, 13 Nov 2012, Johnny Hughes wrote:

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To: centos@centos.org From: Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] XFCE4 group missing on Centos 5.x?

On 11/13/2012 02:41 PM, Keith Roberts wrote:

...

On Tue, 13 Nov 2012, Johnny Hughes wrote:

...

To: centos@centos.org From: Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] XFCE4 group missing on Centos 5.x?

On 11/13/2012 01:55 PM, Keith Roberts wrote:

...

I had XFCE group installed and working on C5.8 32 bit.

I have done a fresh installation using the C 5.5 DVD.

I cannot seem to find the XFCE group now. Has this been removed from Centos 5.x ?

There is a version in CentOS Extras ... however, it is outdated.

I was going to upgrade it ... BUT ... I found that it is now being maintained in EPEL for EL5.

I would recommend that you use the EPEL version of XFCE.

Thanks Johnny.

This is what I'm getting now:

[root@karsites ~]# yum groupinfo XFCE Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities Setting up Group Process Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile

• base: mirror.for.me.uk
• epel: mirrors.ukfast.co.uk
• extras: mirror.for.me.uk
• rpmforge: nl.mirror.eurid.eu
• updates: mirror.for.me.uk

Warning: Group XFCE does not exist.

I was installing xfce4 with:

yum -y groupinstall "XFCE"

Has the name been changed?

The CentOS extras group name is:

XFCE-4.4

I don't think the EPEL version has groups.

[root@karsites ~]# yum groupinfo "XFCE-4.4" Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities Setting up Group Process Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile

• base: mirror.for.me.uk
• epel: mirrors.ukfast.co.uk
• extras: mirror.for.me.uk
• rpmforge: nl.mirror.eurid.eu
• updates: mirror.for.me.uk

Warning: Group XFCE-4.4 does not exist.

Maybe it's been removed now from extras as it's old?

OK - got it now Johnny. So I just install every xfce* package from EPEL and that's dealt with it?

Name : xfce4-session Arch : i386 Version : 4.6.2 Release : 1.el5 Size : 662 k Repo : epel Summary : Xfce session manager URL : http://www.xfce.org/ License : GPLv2+ Description: xfce4-session is the session manager for the : Xfce desktop environment.

Kind Regards,

Keith

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Hi,

This may or may not be helpful, but I'll put this out there anyway just in case :-)

In the CentOS 6 version of EPEL repository the group is called "Xfce" (Case Sensitive)

so:

yum groupinstall "Xfce"

Should do the trick.

If that doesn't work try "yum grouplist" and find a group related to XFCE. :-).

Hope this helps.