[CentOS] CentOS 7 and xfce

Mon Jul 21 13:37:12 UTC 2014
David G. Miller <dave at davenjudy.org>

Tom Bishop <bishoptf at ...> writes:

> 
> I finally have got around to installing centos 7 and usually do a
> pretty minimal installation, I chose the virtualization host, since
> that will be the primary purpose.  However I have hit a snag, I
> usually install xfce from epel and go along my way but there appears
> to be a bug in the xfce package:
> 
> Error: Package: xfdesktop-4.10.2-2.el7.x86_64 (epel)
>            Requires: desktop-backgrounds-basic
>  You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
>  You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
> 
> It has been reported and I assume it will be corrected at some point,
> but was wondering if anyone has xfce running on centos 7 or any other
> alternatives to kde/gnome3.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
The corresponding file from Fedora 19 works.  My guess is that any Fedora 
xfce desktop-backgrounds-basic file would work but I went with the one from 
Fedora 19.

Cheers,
Dave