Installing MATE

[Bill Davidsen]

Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 09/18/2012 12:32 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>> Okay, so the MATE stuff is in the Fedora repository but doesn't seem to work and conflicts with the repository which might work. I will just tell the user with the the problem that it's not actually supported in fc17 even though it is there in the repo. The user has already had more luck than I have, got it to come up and not work, as opposed to not even be on the menu.
>
> FYI, I installed MATE from the obs/dropbox on F17 and it seems to work just fine.
>
Thanks, if I hadn't installed on my toybox from the Fedora repos I would try, 
but it looks like not only conflicts but removing (-e) the Fedora versions would 
take fiddling with yum options to avoid removing things needed elsewhere.

Looks like it works well on MINT as well, so fc18 should have few issues.

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