On 10/21/19 6:02 AM, David G. Miller wrote: > 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 > Thanks Dave. There is another option I posted in this general thread, a Fedora COPR user has rebuilt MATE for EL8: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/stenstorp/MATE/ -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant