On 10/21/19 9:41 PM, David G. Miller wrote: > On 10/21/19 1:00 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: >> 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: >>> >>> 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/ >> >> > Saw that but I wanted to work through your original process with MATE > before trying the same approach with Xfce The good news is that I got > the same results but with Xfce. One different tweak to get around some > additional conflicts between Fedora 28 Xfce and CentOS 8 Gnome: > > yum groupinstall "Xfce" --skip-broken --exclude "*adwaita-gtk2-theme*" > yum groupinstall "Xfce Desktop" --skip-broken --exclude > "*adwaita-gtk2-theme*" --exclude"*logos*" > > Also, I skipped the step analogous to: > > yum install mate* -x mate*devel* -x mate-menu > > since it seemed to be redundant with doing the group installs. So, I > now have two CentOS 8 VMs with neither using Gnome 3. > > Thanks again!!! Very nice. I'll see to post this in CentOS group on Facebook. > > Cheers, > Dave > -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant