[CentOS] Centos 8 Mate?

[David G. Miller]

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
>
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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

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