desktop choice on Fedora 17 (was Re: A Look at Fedora 18)

[David]

On 1/18/2013 4:02 PM, Tim wrote:
> ***  I'll remind people that my tangential offshoot of this thread is
> with Fedora 17.  ***
> 
> 
> Allegedly, on or about 18 January 2013, David sent:
>> You will not be offered a choice of desktops unless you have more 
>> than one installed. From the way you describe what you have done 
>> you do not have the Mate desktop installed. Just a few pieces of 
>> it. Look here.
>> 
>> yum grouplist
> 
> Installed Groups: Administration Tools Design Suite Development
> Tools Dial-up Networking Support Editors Fonts GNOME Desktop
> Environment Games and Entertainment Graphical Internet Graphics
> Hardware Support Input Methods Java Legacy Fonts Mail Server
> Milkymist Network Servers Office/Productivity Printing Support
> Robotics Server Configuration Tools Sound and Video System Tools
> Text-based Internet Window Managers X Window System Available Groups:
> Authoring and Publishing Base Books and Guides Cloud Infrastructure
> Clustering DNS Name Server Development Libraries Directory Server
> Dogtag Certificate System Educational Software Electronic Lab
> Engineering and Scientific FTP Server Fedora Eclipse Fedora Packager
> Font design and packaging GNOME Software Development Haskell Java
> Development KDE Software Compilation KDE Software Development LXDE
> Legacy Network Server Legacy Software Development LibreOffice
> Development Medical Applications MeeGo NetBook UX Environment MinGW
> cross-compiler MySQL Database News Server OCaml Perl Development
> PostgreSQL Database Ruby Somali Support Sugar Desktop Environment
> Virtualization Client Web Development Web Server Windows File Server
> X Software Development XFCE Software Development Xfce Done
> 
> No sign of Mate, in either list.  Nonetheless, I tried the 
> following:
> 
>> yum groupinstall "Mate Desktop"  (note the quote marks)
> 
> And got the response I expected:
> 
> Warning: Group Mate Desktop does not exist. No packages in any 
> requested group available to install or update
> 
> By the way, lots of mirrors seem to be non-responsive, this morning.
>  It took quite some time for either command line to complete.
> 


The email that I replied to had a subject of : *A Look at Fedora 18*.

So somehow I missed your question / problem about trying to install the
Mate Desktop onto Fedora 17 inserted into a thread about "A Look at
Fedora 18"??

I don't recall Mate being available for Fedora 18 as I described. I do
know that with a little skill and abilities it could be added to Fedora
17. Perhaps you should update Fedora 18? A method which should be much
easier for you to follow.

-- 

  David