David, On my last Fedora install, I went...
# yum install @xfce As far as I can tell, I got everything. Generally, I use FVWM2 as my window manager, but XFCE seems to work. My install notes are online at... http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson/Linux.html On Fri, 24 Jul 2015 18:41:13 -0400 David Collier-Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > For a long time, I've been using the Fedora XFCE spin, but wanted to > build a new for-work dev machine and got RHEL 7.2, so I would have a > supported version to host recent tools on. > > Fedora is fun, but tends to lag in app versions while being at the > bleeding edge in kernel versions, which is fine for a toy machine, but > the inverse of what I want for a machine to make money with.. > 86_64 GNU/Linux > > Alas, RHEL 7.2 seems to be much *more* broken than Fedora fc 21 > Yum can't even do a groupinstall, and half the required packages for > xfce are in neither the Red Hat nor the EPEL repositories. > Building XFCE from scratch exposes even more missing dependencies > > This seems odd, as many people with slightly earlier 7.X releases did > $ sudo yum install epel-release > $ sudo yum groupinstall "X Window system" > $ sudo yum groupinstall xfce > and were done. > > Is this just a bad release, or has RH been degrading while I was using > something else? > Should I downgrade to 6? Use KDE? Switch to a different distro? > > What are you folks using for prod? > > --dave > $uname -a > Linux miles 3.10.0-229.7.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri May 15 21:38:46 EDT > 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x > > -- > David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify > System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest > [email protected] | -- Mark Twain > > --- > Talk Mailing List > [email protected] > http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk -- Howard Gibson [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
