{"id":174,"date":"2017-01-09T12:16:59","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T12:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/info.ffteixeira.net\/2017\/01\/09\/installing-mate-on-centos-sl-7-from-the-command-line\/"},"modified":"2017-01-09T12:16:59","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T12:16:59","slug":"installing-mate-on-centos-sl-7-from-the-command-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ffteixeira.net\/?p=174","title":{"rendered":"Installing MATE on CentOS\/SL 7 from the command line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Run MATE on Centos\/SL 7, I&#039;d suggest opting for the &quot;minimal&quot; package option during initial installation (or at least not selecting an alternative desktop environment).<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Install the <abbr title=\"Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux\">epel<\/abbr> repository:\n<pre>\n[root@localhost ~]# yum install epel-release<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<li>Install the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/X_Window_System\">X Window System<\/a>:\n<pre>\n[root@localhost ~]# yum groupinstall &quot;X Window system&quot;<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<li>Install the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MATE_%28software%29\">MATE<\/a> desktop:\n<pre>\n[root@localhost ~]# yum groupinstall &quot;MATE Desktop&quot;<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<li>Change <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Systemd\">systemd<\/a>&nbsp;default.target to graphical.target:\n<pre>\n[root@localhost ~]# ln -sf \/lib\/systemd\/system\/graphical.target \/etc\/systemd\/system\/default.target<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<li>Switch to your new desktop environment:\n<pre>\n[root@localhost ~]# systemctl isolate graphical.target<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/browncoati.com\/posts\/centos_7_with_mate.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Credits<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Run MATE on Centos\/SL 7, I&#039;d suggest opting for the &quot;minimal&quot; package option during initial installation (or at least not selecting an alternative desktop environment). Install the epel repository: [root@localhost ~]# yum install epel-release Install the X Window System: [root@localhost &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ffteixeira.net\/?p=174\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ffteixeira.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ffteixeira.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ffteixeira.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ffteixeira.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ffteixeira.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ffteixeira.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ffteixeira.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ffteixeira.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ffteixeira.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}