[CentOS] XFCE4 group missing on Centos 5.x?

[Jake Shipton]

On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 21:20:28 +0000 (GMT)
Keith Roberts <keith at karsites.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Nov 2012, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> 
> > To: centos at centos.org
> > From: Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>
> > Subject: Re: [CentOS] XFCE4 group missing on Centos 5.x?
> > 
> > On 11/13/2012 02:41 PM, Keith Roberts wrote:
> >> On Tue, 13 Nov 2012, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> >>
> >>> To: centos at centos.org
> >>> From: Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>
> >>> Subject: Re: [CentOS] XFCE4 group missing on Centos 5.x?
> >>>
> >>> On 11/13/2012 01:55 PM, Keith Roberts wrote:
> >>>> I had XFCE group installed and working on C5.8 32 bit.
> >>>>
> >>>> I have done a fresh installation using the C 5.5 DVD.
> >>>>
> >>>> I cannot seem to find the XFCE group now. Has this been
> >>>> removed from Centos 5.x ?
> >>>>
> >>> There is a version in CentOS Extras ... however, it is outdated.
> >>>
> >>> I was going to upgrade it ... BUT ... I found that it is now being
> >>> maintained in EPEL for EL5.
> >>>
> >>> I would recommend that you use the EPEL version of XFCE.
> >> Thanks Johnny.
> >>
> >> This is what I'm getting now:
> >>
> >> [root at karsites ~]# yum groupinfo XFCE
> >> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities
> >> Setting up Group Process
> >> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
> >>   * base: mirror.for.me.uk
> >>   * epel: mirrors.ukfast.co.uk
> >>   * extras: mirror.for.me.uk
> >>   * rpmforge: nl.mirror.eurid.eu
> >>   * updates: mirror.for.me.uk
> >> Warning: Group XFCE does not exist.
> >>
> >> I was installing xfce4 with:
> >>
> >> yum -y groupinstall "XFCE"
> >>
> >> Has the name been changed?
> >
> > The CentOS extras group name is:
> >
> > XFCE-4.4
> >
> > I don't think the EPEL version has groups.
> 
> [root at karsites ~]# yum groupinfo "XFCE-4.4"
> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities
> Setting up Group Process
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
>   * base: mirror.for.me.uk
>   * epel: mirrors.ukfast.co.uk
>   * extras: mirror.for.me.uk
>   * rpmforge: nl.mirror.eurid.eu
>   * updates: mirror.for.me.uk
> Warning: Group XFCE-4.4 does not exist.
> 
> Maybe it's been removed now from extras as it's old?
> 
> OK - got it now Johnny. So I just install every xfce* 
> package from EPEL and that's dealt with it?
> 
> Name       : xfce4-session
> Arch       : i386
> Version    : 4.6.2
> Release    : 1.el5
> Size       : 662 k
> Repo       : epel
> Summary    : Xfce session manager
> URL        : http://www.xfce.org/
> License    : GPLv2+
> Description: xfce4-session is the session manager for the
>  	   : Xfce desktop environment.
> 
> Kind Regards,
> 
> Keith
> 
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Hi,

This may or may not be helpful, but I'll put this out there anyway just
in case :-)

In the CentOS 6 version of EPEL repository the group is
called "Xfce" (Case Sensitive)

so:

yum groupinstall "Xfce"

Should do the trick. 

If that doesn't work try "yum grouplist" and find a group related to
XFCE. :-).

Hope this helps.

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