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