Re: [CentOS] Getting to Mate or Xfce

2017-05-25 Thread Fred Smith
On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 05:18:23PM +, Beartooth wrote: > On Sat, 29 Apr 2017 17:13:30 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > On Sat, 2017-04-29 at 15:43 +, Beartooth wrote: > >>My wife bought a new Thinkpad, on which we had the shop install > >> CentOS 7 (I *think* it's 7.3.) Alas!, I didn't t

Re: [CentOS] Getting to Mate or Xfce

2017-05-25 Thread m . roth
Beartooth wrote: > On Sat, 29 Apr 2017 17:13:30 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > >> On Sat, 2017-04-29 at 15:43 +, Beartooth wrote: >> Do you have any net connection at all? Can you see websites? If you >> can't see the outside world, updates aren't going to happen. > > No, and I can neither

Re: [CentOS] Getting to Mate or Xfce

2017-05-25 Thread Beartooth
On Sat, 29 Apr 2017 17:13:30 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > On Sat, 2017-04-29 at 15:43 +, Beartooth wrote: >> My wife bought a new Thinkpad, on which we had the shop install >> CentOS 7 (I *think* it's 7.3.) Alas!, I didn't think to specify NOT >> Gnome, >> in thunder. So of course I got it.

Re: [CentOS] Getting to Mate or Xfce

2017-04-30 Thread Darr247
> runs through attempts at mirrors and keeps failing till it runs out. > It failed to connect to my wireless router (or even to find it, afaict). > So I plugged it into the router with an ethernet cable. No joy. The ethernet adapter seems to be turned off by default. To turn it on, click the 'down

Re: [CentOS] Getting to Mate or Xfce

2017-04-29 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 03:43:02PM +, Beartooth wrote: > Related problem: when I become root and tell it "yum update," it > figures out a list of umpteen hundred rpms to update, but then runs > through attempts at mirrors and keeps failing till it runs out. It failed > to connect to my

Re: [CentOS] Getting to Mate or Xfce

2017-04-29 Thread Pete Biggs
On Sat, 2017-04-29 at 15:43 +, Beartooth wrote: > My wife bought a new Thinkpad, on which we had the shop install > CentOS 7 (I *think* it's 7.3.) Alas!, I didn't think to specify NOT Gnome, > in thunder. So of course I got it. > > I've tried several times to force myself to acc

[CentOS] Getting to Mate or Xfce

2017-04-29 Thread Beartooth
My wife bought a new Thinkpad, on which we had the shop install CentOS 7 (I *think* it's 7.3.) Alas!, I didn't think to specify NOT Gnome, in thunder. So of course I got it. I've tried several times to force myself to accommodate Gnome3, always with no joy. How do I get Mate o