[CentOS] Centos 8 Mate?

Sat Oct 12 01:46:35 UTC 2019
Robert G (Doc) Savage <dsavage at peaknet.net>

On Wed, 2019-09-25 at 15:25 +0200, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
> 
> As of now, I have a working MATE DM on CentOS 8. It's a hack though,
> I
> used Fedora repositories. But that means compiling MATE in EPEL
> should
> be straightforward, just recompile Fedora 28 packages.
> 
> 
> I used Fedora 28 repo file  and Fedora 28 GPG keys (links are
> bellow),
> unpacked then to proper directory and in Fedora repo files I changed
> "$releasever" to "28".
> I also installed yum-plugin-priorities and in all CentOS repo's added
> "priority=1" and in all Fedora repos added "priority=2".
> 
> Then I ran following commands (something like this, I experimented
> some):
> 
> 
> yum install python2-six
> yum install mate* -x mate*devel* -x mate-menu
> yum groupinstall "MATE" --skip-broken
> yum groupinstall "MATE Desktop" --skip-broken
> echo "exec /usr/bin/mate-session" >> ~/.xinitrc
> reboot
> and then selected MATE in login screen.
> 
> 
> Links to rpm's:
> https://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/archive.fedoraproject.org/fedora/linux/releases/28/Everything/x86_64/os/Packages/f/fedora-repos-28-1.noarch.rpm
> and
> https://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/archive.fedoraproject.org/fedora/linux/releases/28/Everything/x86_64/os/Packages/f/fedora-gpg-keys-28-1.noarch.rpm
> 
> List of installed packages from Fedora 28: 
> https://pastebin.com/VXL03Uqj
> 

Ljubomi,

Hooray! I re-installed CentOS 8 to a fresh VM and went through your
instructions again. This time everything rebuilt and installed
correctly. Thank you!

--Doc Savage
  Fairview Heights, IL