Installing Cinnamon on f21 fails with dependency problems

[Alex Regan]

Hi,

On 01/20/2015 01:34 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Jan 2015 18:00:29 -0500, Alex Regan wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I have a fedora21 workstation install with gnome3, and trying to replace
>> the desktop with Cinnamon.
>>
>> Running 'yum groupinstall "Cinnamon Desktop"' results in the following
>>
>> # yum groupinstall "Cinnamon Desktop"
>> [package list trimmed...]
>> --> Running transaction check
>> ---> Package blas.x86_64 0:3.5.0-10.fc21 will be installed
>> ---> Package hawtjni-runtime.noarch 0:1.10-3.fc21 will be installed
>> ---> Package jansi-native.x86_64 0:1.5-8.fc21 will be installed
>> --> Processing Conflict: fedora-release-workstation-21-2.noarch
>> conflicts fedora-release-nonproduct
>> --> Processing Conflict: fedora-release-nonproduct-21-2.noarch conflicts
>> fedora-release-workstation
>> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
>> Error: fedora-release-nonproduct conflicts with
>> fedora-release-workstation-21-2.noarch
>> Error: fedora-release-workstation conflicts with
>> fedora-release-nonproduct-21-2.noarch
>>    You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
>>    You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
>>
>> Any ideas how to proceed? It's not normal to skip-broken, so I thought I
>> would see if there was a more common problem here...
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F21_bugs#Installation_of_.27environment_groups.27_fails_due_to_conflicts_between_fedora-release_packages

Thanks, that's very helpful. I ended up solving it using "yum install 
@cinnamon-desktop" which seemed to work without issue.

Cinnamon, on the other hand, is significantly slower than the default 
GNOME. I've also realized it's easier to just go back to "GNOME Classic" 
for a beginning user via the gear icon at login time.

Thanks again,
Alex