[Arm-dev] CentOS 7 with LXDE on Rasp Pi 3 Inquiry

Mon Jul 24 19:35:44 UTC 2017
Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>


On 07/20/2017 06:03 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On 07/19/2017 10:30 AM, Markus McLaughlin wrote:
>> HELP!  I want to install CentOS 7 with LXDE on my Raspberry Pi 3...  How
>> do I go about doing so?
>>
> I don't think there is an LXDE for CentOS in any of the repos (EPEL or
> base CentOS), even for x86_64.
>
> There MAY be enough xfce to get that working on CentOS 7.
Actually I have it running on a ClearOS7 system.  Took a it to get it 
together.   I remembered wrong; we worked from Fedora to get the rpms.  
There are a few things missing, and I really need to file a bug report 
about them.  I was away when I first replied.  Back now.


> I am not sure how easy it is to get aarch64 on a PI3, but the base
> Fedora EPEL actually runs on there.  EPEL (and therefore xfce support)
> would be much better and more updated from there than what we are trying
> to do for arm32.