[CentOS] Installing all the mate desktop rpms

[jd1008]

On 06/12/2015 08:42 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
> On 6/12/2015 6:26 PM, jd1008 wrote:
>>
>> On 06/12/2015 07:22 PM, Always Learning wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2015-06-12 at 18:49 -0600, jd1008 wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am running Centos 6.4
>>>> Could that be the issue?
>>> I'm using C 6.6
>>>
>>> Try: yum update
>>>
>>>
>> I did. Says nothing marked for update. 
>
>
> what does...
>
> $ cat /etc/redhat-release
>
> say?    If that says 6.4, and yum update doesn't update to the latest 
> CentOS 6.6, something *is* broken on your system.   6.4 is from 2013...
OK, so I am indeed at 6.6 :
# cat /etc/centos-release
CentOS release 6.6 (Final)

But I would still like to get up to 7,
but as I indicated in another post, I cannot use the 7's
iso because it crashes immediately during boot.
Problem with bringing up X.
As I also stated in another post, centos 6.4 had no problems
with my old graphics card. So, why is centos 7 crapping out?