[TriLUG] How does one install LXDE or Xfce on CentOS?

William Sutton william at trilug.org
Wed Dec 31 14:59:48 EST 2014


I wonder if he's trying CentOS as a proxy for my query about RHEL the 
other day.

William Sutton

On Wed, 31 Dec 2014, Jonathan Mainguy wrote:

> Really though, I would recommend using Fedora if you wanted a GUI
> workstation. Centos is always going to be older and stable, whereas fedora
> is better suited for workstation use as it is close to bleeding edge.
> On Dec 31, 2014 12:22 PM, "C TC" <c.crider at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Add the Epel repository, etc.
>> Here's one search result.
>>
>> http://jensd.be/?p=125
>> On Dec 31, 2014 4:24 AM, "Steve Litt" <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > How does one install LXDE or Xfce on CentOS?
>> >
>> > yum search lxde
>> >
>> > Brings back no results. Neither does searching on xfce, or blackbox.
>> > Surely there must be a way, besides ./configure;make;make install, to
>> > put an alternate and smaller window manager on CentOS.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > SteveT
>> >
>> > Steve Litt                *  http://www.troubleshooters.com/
>> > Troubleshooting Training  *  Human Performance
>> >
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