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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