[Arm-dev] Request for the Xfce desktop

[Robert Moskowitz]

Stephen,

thank you for clarifying this.

meanwhile...

I have enabled the epel repo, and there is no "Xfce Desktop" group. I do 
see xfce4 rpms now, but what do I do to install the Xfce desktop?

thanks


On 08/01/2018 09:54 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On 1 August 2018 at 09:46, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
>> Pablo,
>>
>> Thanks!  I will do test install on the gnome image.  If I goes without an
>> error, I will do a build off minimal and try with that.
>>
>> And interesting about Xfce and Redhat.  They provide it for all Fedora
>> builds.  Or at least x64 and armv7!
>>
> You are misinterpreting what Red Hat provides in Fedora. Red Hat
> sponsors Fedora which has community members build, develop and produce
> packages for an OS. Fedora is not a product of Red Hat and has many
> packages which are not in RHEL for many reasons. The packages in
> Fedora for XFCE are community driven versus ones that have a Red Hat
> developer paid full time to work on.
>
> Red Hat does pull in packages from Fedora to make various versions of
> RHEL, but they are ones that they feel are what paying customers want
> and are willing to pay for long term support for.
>
>
>> On 08/01/2018 09:42 AM, Pablo Sebastián Greco wrote:
>>
>> Robert, xfce is not provided by RedHat, so we don't have it in CentOS, but
>> it is actually built by epel.
>> So if you enable epel, you should be able to install xfce.
>>
>> I've never tested it, so if you do, please report back :-).
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Pablo.
>>
>> El 1/8/18 a las 10:23, Robert Moskowitz escribió:
>>
>> I am a proponent of Xfce, especially for armv7 boards.  I got introduced to
>> Xfce with Fedora-arm 19 (or was it 18 or even 17?).
>>
>> I did the Gnome image install, dropped to runlevel 3, installed vncserver,
>> and do get the gnome desktop with my notebook taking most of the performance
>> hit.
>>
>> But having at least the option of installing the minimal image then doing a
>> group install "Xfce Desktop" would be great.
>>
>> BTW, I did 'yum list >y.lst' and 'grep -i xfce y.lst' and came up empty
>> handed. Is Xfce even built for arm?
>>
>> thanks
>>
>>
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