> 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 >>
What I would do on Red Hat 6.5 (never tried on Red Hat 7.x): # wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm # rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm # yum -y groupinstall Xfce # yum -y install xorg-x11-fonts-Type1 xorg-x11-fonts-misc Also, tried in a Centos 7 (perhaps would work on Red Hat 7.x # wget http://archive.linux.duke.edu/pub/epel//7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-2.noarch.rpm # rpm -ivh epel-release-7.2.noarch.rpm # yum -y groupinstall Xfce # yum -y install xorg-x11-fonts-Type1 xorg-x11-fonts-mis Best, --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
