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

[David]

On 1/18/2013 9:18 PM, David wrote:
> 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.
> 



MY typo here!!  *" don't recall Mate being available for Fedora 18 as I
described.*"

should read *...Fedora 17*.

Sorry about that.
-- 

  David