On 10/11/19 7:46 PM, Robert G (Doc) Savage via CentOS wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Ljubomi - A couple of minor tweaks: vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv yum --skip-broken install mate\* -x mate\*devel\* -x mate-menu -x mate-optimus\* yum groupinstall "MATE" --skip-broken vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv yum groupinstall "MATE Desktop" --skip-broken --exclude "*logos*" but otherwise working. Decided that I should see whether I could get MATE working on CentOS 8 before fiddling with Xfce. I now have a usable CentOS 8 desktop. Thank you! Cheers, Dave -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty." -- Benjamin Franklin