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Re: How do I install xfce?
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Stephen John Smoogen <[log in to unmask]>
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Stephen John Smoogen <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 9 Apr 2011 11:52:19 -0600
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On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 10:33, Todd And Margo Chester
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> On 04/08/2011 12:54 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>>
>> Not sure which version of Scientific Linux you are looking to have.
>
> SL6
>
>> xfce is not in the main distro EL6 repository and not in EPEL for EL6.
>> I am hoping to fix that soon (well for EPEL that is)
>
> Cool.  What kind of time frame are you looking at?  And, will you announce
> it to us all when you do?

I am hoping by end of APril and will announce. It may or may not be
4.8 depending on whether it works for EL6 or not.

> I take it that RHEL 6 does not have Xfce in its repos either?

No it does not. RHEL has KDE and GNOME and I think twm.

> -T
>
>



-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.
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Randy Nelson, President of Pixar University.
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