[CentOS] What about Mate Desktop on Centos 8?

On Wed, 2019-12-04 at 20:18 +0100, agents at meddatainc.com wrote:
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> On 11/25/2019 11:14 PM, isdtor wrote:
> > > > Enable and start httpd. Write a build script that builds the
> > > > rpms in order, transfers them to the local repo, runs
> > > > createrepo, repeat. mozo needs python 3.5 and I couldn't do
> > > > that in mock (SCLo rh-python35).
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > You kindly offered a working version of Mate 1.20 - does that
> > > offer still stand? If so, I am interested in installing it on C
> > > 7.
> > 
> >  
> > At this point, that would be a bit painful. I rebuilt the C7 vm
> > here and lost all the rpms, so I'd have to rebuild them from the
> > sources I posted online. For which I'd have to recreate the build
> > script.
> > 
> > At least those files are still online ...
> > 
> > There was a recent post to the list where someoen ported the Fedora
> > rpms, does that help you?
> > 
> 
> I see, that is indeed unfortunate. Although I have been using Linux
> for some time, I am a complete beginner to compiling etc.
> 
> Do you have notes left?
> 

You can install MATE for CentOS 8 from the stenstorp repo

https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/stenstorp/MATE/


I've been using it for some time with no problems.

Tony

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