[Arm-dev] Attempt to install Xfce by hand
Pablo Sebastián Greco
pablo at fliagreco.com.ar
Fri Oct 12 19:24:49 UTC 2018
El 12/10/18 a las 14:08, Robert Moskowitz escribió:
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> On 10/12/18 12:37 PM, Pablo Sebastián Greco wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> Progress! Thanks!
>
>>> 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
>
> So I shouldn't rush out to do more testing. I may have the group
> 'soon' and do it right? I can afford to assign more time to my paid
> consulting right now!
Please test as much as you can, I don't know how long it will take me to
add the groups
>
> One note on my manual install that I pulled out of the xml thanks to
> help from the main Centos user list. I am installing gnome-polkit;
> there is an xfce-polkit. Why did the group xml use gnome-polkit? I
> may have done something wrong but that is what I got...
That may be because the Requires that is pulling it, must be pointing to
PolicyKit-authentication-agent (that both provide), instead of an actual
reference to xfce-polkit
>
>>>
>>> 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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