stenstorp/MATE

Project ID: 26540

Description

The official unofficial repository for MATE for EL8.

NOTE

There have been reports of users being unable to login to MATE using GDM. This issue does not exist when using lightdm. Lightdm can be installed with the following commands:

sudo dnf copr enable stenstorp/lightdm
sudo dnf install slick-greeter-mate lightdm-settings
sudo systemctl disable gdm
sudo systemctl enable lightdm

Lightdm will be used on the next boot.

Installation Instructions

Enable the repository:

sudo dnf copr enable stenstorp/MATE

Press Y to allow.
The EPEL repository will also need to be enabled.

sudo dnf config-manager --set-enabled powertools  
sudo dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm

Install Packages

sudo dnf install NetworkManager-adsl NetworkManager-bluetooth NetworkManager-libreswan-gnome NetworkManager-openvpn-gnome NetworkManager-ovs NetworkManager-ppp NetworkManager-team NetworkManager-wifi NetworkManager-wwan abrt-desktop abrt-java-connector adwaita-gtk2-theme alsa-plugins-pulseaudio atril atril-caja atril-thumbnailer caja caja-actions caja-image-converter caja-open-terminal caja-sendto caja-wallpaper caja-xattr-tags dconf-editor engrampa eom firewall-config gnome-disk-utility gnome-epub-thumbnailer gstreamer1-plugins-ugly-free gtk2-engines gucharmap gvfs-afc gvfs-afp gvfs-archive gvfs-fuse gvfs-gphoto2 gvfs-mtp gvfs-smb initial-setup-gui libmatekbd libmatemixer libmateweather libsecret lm_sensors marco mate-applets mate-backgrounds mate-calc mate-control-center mate-desktop mate-dictionary mate-disk-usage-analyzer mate-icon-theme mate-media mate-menus mate-menus-preferences-category-menu mate-notification-daemon mate-panel mate-polkit mate-power-manager mate-screensaver mate-screenshot mate-search-tool mate-session-manager mate-settings-daemon mate-system-log mate-system-monitor mate-terminal mate-themes mate-user-admin mate-user-guide mozo network-manager-applet nm-connection-editor p7zip p7zip-plugins pluma seahorse seahorse-caja xdg-user-dirs-gtk brisk-menu

This package list is based off of the MATE group from Fedora.

Active Releases

The following unofficial repositories are provided as-is by owner of this project. Contact the owner directly for bugs or issues (IE: not bugzilla).

Release	Architectures	Repo Download
Centos-stream 8	aarch64 (16368), ppc64le (16278), x86_64 (25474)*	Centos-stream 8 (11162 downloads)
EPEL 8	aarch64 (19258), ppc64le (16206), x86_64 (723704)*	EPEL 8 (32111 downloads)