[ F21 GNOME ] How to properly install Xfce

[Martin Cigorraga]

Hi all,

A while back I installed the main Fedora flavour to peek out how GNOME was
doing but I want now to go back to Xfce. Alas! From what I've been
researching removing GNOME Desktop is close to impossible without risking a
massive wreak-havoc.

OTOH I'm not going reinstall the whole stuff as I already have the system
up and running the way I like it :P

Until I figure out what to do with the GNOME Desktop leftovers, what would
you say would be the best way to install Xfce Desktop, just issue an 'yum
groupinstall "Xfce Desktop"'? I won't be knocking wood, crossing my fingers
and rubbing a rabbit leg through the process :S

Btw, thanks a lot for your work on the upcoming lil rat release!

Regards,
-Martin

[Martin Cigorraga]

EDIT
Trying to 'yum groupinstall "Xfce Desktop" I got:

"Skipped (dependency problems):
 fedora-release-nonproduct      noarch    21-2     Fedora     19 k"

Already read the explanation for this here:
https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/59388/installing-kde-on-fedora-21/
but still I'm not sure how to proceed the safest possible way...

On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 8:19 PM, Martin Cigorraga 
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> A while back I installed the main Fedora flavour to peek out how GNOME was
> doing but I want now to go back to Xfce. Alas! From what I've been
> researching removing GNOME Desktop is close to impossible without risking a
> massive wreak-havoc.
>
> OTOH I'm not going reinstall the whole stuff as I already have the system
> up and running the way I like it :P
>
> Until I figure out what to do with the GNOME Desktop leftovers, what would
> you say would be the best way to install Xfce Desktop, just issue an 'yum
> groupinstall "Xfce Desktop"'? I won't be knocking wood, crossing my fingers
> and rubbing a rabbit leg through the process :S
>
> Btw, thanks a lot for your work on the upcoming lil rat release!
>
> Regards,
> -Martin

[Martin Cigorraga]

A fellow Fedora user at irc kindly pointed me to
https://bluehatrecord.wordpress.com/2014/12/12/changing-fedora-21-products/
(which is basically the same information exposed on the aforementioned
linked but extended.

Thoughts?

On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 9:34 PM, Martin Cigorraga 
wrote:
> EDIT
> Trying to 'yum groupinstall "Xfce Desktop" I got:
>
> "Skipped (dependency problems):
>  fedora-release-nonproduct      noarch    21-2     Fedora     19 k"
>
> Already read the explanation for this here:
> https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/59388/installing-kde-on-fedora-21/
> but still I'm not sure how to proceed the safest possible way...
>
> On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 8:19 PM, Martin Cigorraga <
> [e-mail]> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > A while back I installed the main Fedora flavour to peek out how GNOME
> > was doing but I want now to go back to Xfce. Alas! From what I've been
> > researching removing GNOME Desktop is close to impossible without risking a
> > massive wreak-havoc.
> >
> > OTOH I'm not going reinstall the whole stuff as I already have the system
> > up and running the way I like it :P
> >
> > Until I figure out what to do with the GNOME Desktop leftovers, what
> > would you say would be the best way to install Xfce Desktop, just issue an
> > 'yum groupinstall "Xfce Desktop"'? I won't be knocking wood, crossing my
> > fingers and rubbing a rabbit leg through the process :S
> >
> > Btw, thanks a lot for your work on the upcoming lil rat release!
> >
> > Regards,
> > -Martin
>
> --
> -Martin

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Sat, 7 Mar 2015 22:39:49 -0300
Martin Cigorraga  wrote:
> A fellow Fedora user at irc kindly pointed me to
> https://bluehatrecord.wordpress.com/2014/12/12/changing-fedora-21-products/
> (which is basically the same information exposed on the aforementioned
> linked but extended.
>
> Thoughts?

See:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F21_bugs#environment-product-conflicts

which points to the same bug I guess.

kevin

[Martin Cigorraga]

Thank you :)

On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 6:10 PM, Kevin Fenzi  wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Mar 2015 22:39:49 -0300
> Martin Cigorraga  wrote:
> > A fellow Fedora user at irc kindly pointed me to
>
> https://bluehatrecord.wordpress.com/2014/12/12/changing-fedora-21-products/
> > (which is basically the same information exposed on the aforementioned
> > linked but extended.
> >
> > Thoughts?
>
> See:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F21_bugs#environment-product-conflicts
>
> which points to the same bug I guess.
>
> kevin
>
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