[Arm-dev] Attempt to install Xfce by hand
Pablo Sebastián Greco
pablo at fliagreco.com.ar
Fri Oct 12 16:37:40 UTC 2018
El 12/10/18 a las 10:20, Robert Moskowitz escribió:
> I have reached a point where having an Xfce desktop would be REALLY
> valuable for supporting my servers by VNCing into the DE.
>
Robert, epel-pass-1 is only missing a handful of rpms. Even more, I just
tested your command and the only problem I saw was the one you said
about openchrome.
> So is there any possible progress on fixing errors in epel1? Also
> adding the XFCE missing group that mainline Centos7 has?
I'll check the groups part after all the changes that had to be made are
integrated in epel
>
> thanks
Pablo.
>
> On 8/7/18 10:16 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>> 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!
>>
>>
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