[CentOS] Missing rpms - Re: What is in a yum group

[Bowie Bailey]

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.

-- 
Bowie