On September 17, 2019 4:33:10 AM GMT-04:00, James Pearson <james-p at moving-picture.com> wrote:>H wrote: >> >> On September 16, 2019 8:06:41 PM GMT-04:00, Fred Smith ><fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote: >>> On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 04:18:31PM -0600, Frank Cox wrote: >>>> According to Twitter: >>>> >>>> https://mobile.twitter.com/CentOSProject/status/1173652996305170432 >>>> >>>> "The next version of #CentOS is being released September 24 and >will >>> be announced in all the usual places." >>>> >>>> I'm wondering about the status of the Mate Desktop. >>>> >>>> Looking under M here: >>>> >>>> >>> >https://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/fedora/epel/8/Everything/x86_64/Packages/m/ >>>> >>>> I don't see anything about Mate. Which leads me to ask, what's its >>> status then? I hope it hasn't died since that's what I use for all >of >>> my computers. >>> >>> For Centos 7, I use Mate from the epel repo. I assume it'll >eventually >>> appear there for C8 as well. >> >> I hope we can get the latest version of Mate compiled for C 7. > >See the previous thread(s) on this list about newer versions of Mate >for >el7: > > https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2019-July/172916.html > >and: > > https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2019-August/173150.html > >James Pearson >_______________________________________________ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS at centos.org >https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centosYes, those are previous posts of mine. I was hoping we would get the latest version of Mate available on Centos 7.
> >See the previous thread(s) on this list about newer versions of Mate > >for > >el7: > > > > https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2019-July/172916.html > > > >and: > > > > https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2019-August/173150.html > > > >James Pearson > >_______________________________________________ > >CentOS mailing list > >CentOS at centos.org > >https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > Yes, those are previous posts of mine. I was hoping we would get the latest version of Mate available on Centos 7.I have successfuly built and run 1.20, based on EPEL 1.16. Upgrading those to 1.22 was not successful, while everything builds, most desktop components just crash.
On 09/18/2019 04:31 AM, isdtor wrote:>>> See the previous thread(s) on this list about newer versions of Mate >>> for >>> el7: >>> >>> https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2019-July/172916.html >>> >>> and: >>> >>> https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2019-August/173150.html >>> >>> James Pearson >>> _______________________________________________ >>> CentOS mailing list >>> CentOS at centos.org >>> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> Yes, those are previous posts of mine. I was hoping we would get the latest version of Mate available on Centos 7. > I have successfuly built and run 1.20, based on EPEL 1.16. Upgrading those to 1.22 was not successful, while everything builds, most desktop components just crash. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centosI would very much like to see the latest version - as well as versions to come - available for CentOS7 (and 8 eventually.) Is there anything I/we can do to help you identify and track down bugs?
On 11/25/2019 11:14 PM, isdtor wrote:>>> Enable and start httpd. Write a build script that builds the rpms in order, transfers them to the local repo, runs createrepo, repeat. mozo needs python 3.5 and I couldn't do that in mock (SCLo rh-python35). >>> >> You kindly offered a working version of Mate 1.20 - does that offer still stand? If so, I am interested in installing it on C 7. > > At this point, that would be a bit painful. I rebuilt the C7 vm here and lost all the rpms, so I'd have to rebuild them from the sources I posted online. For which I'd have to recreate the build script. > > At least those files are still online ... > > There was a recent post to the list where someoen ported the Fedora rpms, does that help you? >I see, that is indeed unfortunate. Although I have been using Linux for some time, I am a complete beginner to compiling etc. Do you have notes left?
On Wed, 2019-12-04 at 20:18 +0100, agents at meddatainc.com wrote:> CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the University of > Limerick. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you > recognize the sender's email address and know the content is safe. > On 11/25/2019 11:14 PM, isdtor wrote: > > > > Enable and start httpd. Write a build script that builds the > > > > rpms in order, transfers them to the local repo, runs > > > > createrepo, repeat. mozo needs python 3.5 and I couldn't do > > > > that in mock (SCLo rh-python35). > > > > > > > > > > You kindly offered a working version of Mate 1.20 - does that > > > offer still stand? If so, I am interested in installing it on C > > > 7. > > > > > > At this point, that would be a bit painful. I rebuilt the C7 vm > > here and lost all the rpms, so I'd have to rebuild them from the > > sources I posted online. For which I'd have to recreate the build > > script. > > > > At least those files are still online ... > > > > There was a recent post to the list where someoen ported the Fedora > > rpms, does that help you? > > > > I see, that is indeed unfortunate. Although I have been using Linux > for some time, I am a complete beginner to compiling etc. > > Do you have notes left? >You can install MATE for CentOS 8 from the stenstorp repo https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/stenstorp/MATE/ I've been using it for some time with no problems. Tony -- Tony Molloy <tony.molloy at ul.ie> Home