On 05/25/2017 11:22 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: > On 5/25/2017 10:04 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> >> >> On 05/25/2017 09:32 AM, Leon Fauster wrote: >>>> Am 25.05.2017 um 15:27 schrieb Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>: >>>> >>>> Thanks. I followed this to: >>>> http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/os/x86_64/Packages/ >>>> >>>> And could not find any of the following: >>>> >>>> No package xfce-utils available. >>>> No package NetworkManager-gnome available. >>>> No package leafpad available. >>>> No package xfce4-icon-theme available. >>>> Package xfce4-mixer is obsoleted by xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin, trying >>>> to install xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin-0.2.4-4.el7.x86_64 instead >>>> No package xfwm4-theme-nodoka available. >>>> >>>> So it would appear that an Xfce desktop install is 'broken' for >>>> some level of brokeness for Centos7. >>>> >>>> But interestingly, NetworkManager-gnome is not used by gnome. It >>>> has a bunch of other NetworkManager rpms. I also checked Fedora 21 >>>> and 24 and their Xfce desktop does not list NetworkManager-gnome >>>> when I do a group info xfce. So there is something wrong in the >>>> packaging of the xfce group in Centos7-x64 that Scott provided me... >>> >>> Xfce is provided by EPEL: >>> >>> https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2017-May/164858.html >> >> I missed that your two emails pointed to different urls. Thanks. But... >> >> Enabling epel does not provide an Xfce group. >> Enabling epel does not give me the missing rpms. It does provide >> both mixer and pulseaudio-plugin, but not the others. >> >> So Xfce is still broken at some level of brokeness with C7. > > On my rather basic C7 system with epel enabled, I don't see any problems. > > # yum groupinstall "Xfce" > ... > Install 20 Packages (+193 Dependent packages) > > It did not give any errors and the install list does not mention any > of the missing packages that you list above. It works fine with C7. > There must be some difference with your system. > The group is not on my system. I am using ClearOS' version of the Centos repos, so not necessarily a surprise. And all my other servers are Centos7-armv7hl, also with no Xfce group. But the armv7hl repos have a number of build challenges that we have had to work around... Can you please run: yum group info Xfce and send me the output?