Install XFCE on CentOS 7 official release

Install XFCE on CentOS 7 official release

 

 

• Posted on July 14, 2014
• by suse

Following Notes work on CentOS/RHEL/OEL 7.

As the release is fresh, we dont have rpmfusion packages on XFCE.

Also we dont have RHN access.

 

Alternative for now: install via EPEL repo

 

1. install CentOS 7 release
http://www.centos.org/download/

Minimal install without X window and Desktop setups.

 

2. install EPEL repo.

http://ftp.riken.jp/Linux/fedora/epel/beta/7/x86_64/repoview/epel-release.html

 

1	# rpm -Uvh http://ftp.riken.jp/Linux/fedora/epel/beta/7/x86_64/epel-release-7-0.2.noarch.rpm

 

3. install XFCE sets.

 

1 2	# yum install @xfce # yum groupinstall "X Window system"

 

Now OK:

 

1	# startxfce4

or:

 

1	# ln -sf /lib/systemd/system/graphical.target /etc/systemd/system/default.target

 

Get Necessary Packages:

 

1	# yum install xterm firefox  wget

Still there’s a fatal problem for now, that no thunar packages available yet.
#yum install Thunar thunar  # not work

Trying from scratch
# http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/thunar/1.6/Thunar-1.6.3.tar.bz2

Also: following build in progress, waiting…
https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/Thunar/builds/

Well ,  thunar package may be available now when you read this note, just ignore the following,

or if not yet ready, please keep noticed.
I tried  to fetch package from F20.

1. the latest version of Thunar is 1.6.3-3.fc21  ,  but EL7 is based on fc21,
google “Thunar-1.6.3-2.fc20.src.rpm” for the location

2. essential tools:

 

1	＃yum install yum-utils rpmdevtools

3. packages ready for build:

 

1	# yum-builddep Thunar-1.6.3-2.fc20.src.rpm

4.build RPM

 

1	# rpmbuild --rebuild Thunar-1.6.3-2.fc20.src.rpm

RPMs now ready here:

 

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

[root@localhost ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64]$pwd /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64 [root@localhost ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64]$ls -l total 2780 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1290680 Jul 14 14:10 Thunar-1.6.3-2.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1384024 Jul 14 14:10 Thunar-debuginfo-1.6.3-2.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 167856 Jul 14 14:10 Thunar-devel-1.6.3-2.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm

 

Install is ok:

 

1	# rpm -ivh Thunar-1.6.3-2.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm Thunar-devel-1.6.3-2.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm

 

 

1

Same issue on xfdesktop,  fetch and compile together.
# google xfdesktop-4.10.2-2.fc20.src.rpm

 

1 2 3 4 5

# yum-builddep xfdesktop-4.10.2-2.fc20.src.rpm # rpmbuild --rebuild xfdesktop-4.10.2-2.fc20.src.rpm   # cd /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64 # rpm -ivh xfdesktop-4.10.2-2.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm

 

Alternative:
I just saw following builds:

just download directly here:

Thunar    http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=543666
xfdesktop   http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=543669

 

Also xfdesktop have a dependency on desktop-backgrounds-basic

I uploaded all files here:
http://pan.baidu.com/s/1o6OB8ro