Installing MATE

[Jon Ingason]

2012-09-17 03:49, Ed Greshko skrev:
> On 09/17/2012 09:35 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> On 09/17/2012 08:29 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>>> I got some questions about MATE and wanted to install it and actually see how it worked. I started with a machine on fc17, which had Cinnamon and XFCE installed. After doing the yum install, I don't see MATE in the list of managers available at login. Before I spend a lot of time in documentation, it this normal? Does it not drop in like KDE, etc?
>>>
>> MATE is not currently in the Fedora repositories.
>>
>> To install, follow the instructions at http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/download  ....  Which are...
>>
>> yum install https://dl.dropbox.com/u/49862637/Mate-desktop/mate-desktop-fedora-updates/16/noarch/mate-desktop-release-16-6.fc16.noarch.rpm
>>
>> yum groupinstall MATE-Desktop
>>
>> FYI.... http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/MATE-Desktop  contains the status for inclusion of MATE in F18.
>>
>
> I erred in giving you the instructions for F16....  So, just replace 6 with 7 or go to their instructions.  :-)
>

Not so simple, the right URL is:

yum install 
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/49862637/Mate-desktop/fedora_17/mate-desktop-fedora-updates/noarch/mate-desktop-release-17-2.fc17.noarch.rpm

;-)

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Regards
Jon Ingason