What About Mate Desktop On CentOS 8?
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.
12 thoughts on - What About Mate Desktop On CentOS 8?
This is more of a question for the EPEL lists versus here. The current status is that desktops are harder to package up in EL8 and only a less feature version is available at the moment. At the moment the only one I know of is KDE is half implemented in EPEL Playground and will be reimplemented as a module when EPEL gains the ability to do modules. At that point interested people can also do the work to make Mate/Cinnamon/etc available.
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.
yes, that’d be nice. but in the meantime the version we have is at least a ton better than the default desktop, which I’ve never figured out how to use beyond getting epel configured and Mate installed.
H 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
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.
I 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?
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
Oh you were looking for mate-1.20 for CentOS 7. Sorry for the noise, should read the e-mail before replying ;-(
I played with that some a while back and it seemed to work fine.
Does anyone know if there are any plans to get this into EPEL?