Thanks for that reminder. After running yum groupinstall 'MATE' all is well.
 
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> From:Benjamin Lefoul <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday 11th January 2017 18:21
> To: [log in to unmask]; Bill Maidment <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: SL7.3 RC Notes
> 
> On Wed, 2017-01-11 at 18:04 +1100, Bill Maidment wrote:
> > Hi
> > After installing the RC in a VM it all installed nicely with no
> > issues and yum updates worked OK.
> > I installed the EPEL repo and mate-desktop and then I started to get
> > errors. It looks like EPEL mate-desktop is not yet compatible with 
> 
> Note that mate-desktop is a package, but it is also the group-Id of the
> group "MATE" which includes that package, among other things.
> 
> To add even more confusion, there is another group called "MATE
> Desktop" with group-Id mate-desktop-environment...
> 
> Benjamin
> 
> > SL7.3. That makes a change from EPEL being ahead of SL.
> > Nice work.
> > 
> > Cheers
> > Bill Maidment
> 
>