On 09/17/2012 09:35 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 09/17/2012 08:29 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>> I got some questions about MATE and wanted to install it and actually see 
>> how it worked. I started with a machine on fc17, which had Cinnamon and XFCE 
>> installed. After doing the yum install, I don't see MATE in the list of 
>> managers available at login. Before I spend a lot of time in documentation, 
>> it this normal? Does it not drop in like KDE, etc?
>>
> MATE is not currently in the Fedora repositories.
>
> To install, follow the instructions at http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/download  
> ....  Which are...
>
> yum install 
> https://dl.dropbox.com/u/49862637/Mate-desktop/mate-desktop-fedora-updates/16/noarch/mate-desktop-release-16-6.fc16.noarch.rpm
>
> yum groupinstall MATE-Desktop
>
> FYI.... http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/MATE-Desktop  contains the 
> status for inclusion of MATE in F18.
>

I erred in giving you the instructions for F16....  So, just replace 6 with 7 
or go to their instructions.  :-)

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