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 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Arm-dev mailing list >> Arm-dev at centos.org >> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/arm-dev >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Arm-dev mailing list >> Arm-dev at centos.org >> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/arm-dev >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Arm-dev mailing list >> Arm-dev at centos.org >> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/arm-dev >> > >