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

Rick Stevens ricks at alldigital.com
Fri Jan 18 21:11:37 UTC 2013


On 01/18/2013 01:02 PM, Tim issued this missive:
> ***  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.

I think you need a different repo for Mate on F18. Check their wiki:

	http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/download
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