[Arm-dev] Attempt to install Xfce by hand

Tue Aug 7 14:16:36 UTC 2018
Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>

You may have seen my posts around on my challenges to build a couple 
groups to do a group install.  That got me to realize, that I probably 
know which rpms to install and I could 'do it by hand' for now.  So 
first step was:

yum install glx-utils initial-setup-gui mesa-dri-drivers 
plymouth-system-theme spice-vdagent xorg-x11-drivers 
xorg-x11-server-Xorg xorg-x11-utils xorg-x11-xauth xorg-x11-xinit xvattr 
tigervnc-server wayland-protocols-devel xorg-x11-drv-keyboard 
xorg-x11-drv-libinput xorg-x11-drv-mouse xorg-x11-drv-openchrome

Where xorg-x11-drv-openchrome was not available, but is flagged optional 
in the group.  This installed 16 packages and 263 dependents.

Next the actual Xfce:

yum install Thunar xfce-utils xfce4-panel xfce4-session xfce4-settings 
xfconf xfdesktop xfwm4 gdm leafpad openssh-askpass orage polkit-gnome 
thunar-archive-plugin thunar-volman tumbler xfce4-appfinder 
xfce4-icon-theme xfce4-power-manager xfce4-session-engines 
xfce4-terminal xfwm4-theme-nodoka xfwm4-themes pinentry

First this showed:

No package xfce-utils available.
No package leafpad available.
No package thunar-archive-plugin available.
No package xfce4-icon-theme available.
No package xfwm4-theme-nodoka available.

No leafpad is OK, as a check shows that mousepad is available and this 
is what is in Fedora28.  No xfce-utils is not good.  It got worst with 
critical missing dependencies that need to be fixed before I could get 
this to work:

Error: Package: xfce4-power-manager-1.4.1-4.el7.armv7hl (epel)
            Requires: libxfce4util.so.6
            Available: libxfce4util-4.10.1-2.el7.armv7hl (epel)
                libxfce4util.so.6
            Installing: libxfce4util-4.12.1-2.el7.armv7hl (epel)
               ~libxfce4util.so.7
Error: Package: xfdesktop-4.10.3-1.el7.armv7hl (epel)
            Requires: libxfce4util.so.6
            Available: libxfce4util-4.10.1-2.el7.armv7hl (epel)
                libxfce4util.so.6
            Installing: libxfce4util-4.12.1-2.el7.armv7hl (epel)
               ~libxfce4util.so.7
Error: Package: xfce4-session-4.10.1-8.el7.armv7hl (epel)
            Requires: libxfce4util.so.6
            Available: libxfce4util-4.10.1-2.el7.armv7hl (epel)
                libxfce4util.so.6
            Installing: libxfce4util-4.12.1-2.el7.armv7hl (epel)
               ~libxfce4util.so.7
Error: Package: orage-4.10.0-5.el7.armv7hl (epel)
            Requires: libxfce4util.so.6
            Available: libxfce4util-4.10.1-2.el7.armv7hl (epel)
                libxfce4util.so.6
            Installing: libxfce4util-4.12.1-2.el7.armv7hl (epel)
               ~libxfce4util.so.7
Error: Package: Thunar-1.6.3-2.el7.armv7hl (epel)
            Requires: libxfce4util.so.6
            Available: libxfce4util-4.10.1-2.el7.armv7hl (epel)
                libxfce4util.so.6
            Installing: libxfce4util-4.12.1-2.el7.armv7hl (epel)
               ~libxfce4util.so.7
Error: Package: xfce4-appfinder-4.10.1-2.el7.armv7hl (epel)
            Requires: libxfce4util.so.6
            Available: libxfce4util-4.10.1-2.el7.armv7hl (epel)
                libxfce4util.so.6
            Installing: libxfce4util-4.12.1-2.el7.armv7hl (epel)
               ~libxfce4util.so.7
Error: Package: xfce4-session-engines-4.10.1-8.el7.armv7hl (epel)
            Requires: libxfce4util.so.6
            Available: libxfce4util-4.10.1-2.el7.armv7hl (epel)
                libxfce4util.so.6
            Installing: libxfce4util-4.12.1-2.el7.armv7hl (epel)
               ~libxfce4util.so.7
Error: Package: thunar-volman-0.8.0-6.el7.armv7hl (epel)
            Requires: libxfce4util.so.6
            Available: libxfce4util-4.10.1-2.el7.armv7hl (epel)
                libxfce4util.so.6
            Installing: libxfce4util-4.12.1-2.el7.armv7hl (epel)
               ~libxfce4util.so.7
  You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
  You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

I am going to have to put this on the back burner until someone can fix 
these.  I do not have the skill sets to do it.

But having Xcfe would be great for an armv7 SOC over Gnome!