Fedora 20

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Sugar-Desktop in Gnome

09/12/2013

Sugar and Sugar-desktop does not start properly in F20-Alpha RC2

the xserver and DE do not start (see below)

Workaround

• Install Gnome Desktop live - enter; root-password user-password
• Reeboot
• Log in and start terminal

sudo su
password
yum install @sugar-desktop
shutdown /reboot
enter user name and select sugar in gdn (little wheel icon under password line)
 ( ) Gnome
 (X) Sugar

• Sugar starts

SoaS f20-Alpha-1

09/11/2013

• Download:

https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/20-Alpha-RC1/Spins/x86_64/Fedora-Live-SoaS-x86_64-20-Alpha-1.iso

Notes

• Boots to console prompt

login: liveuser
startx

• Start sugar terminal from f3 list view

• Start anaconda installer "liveinst"

anaconda 20.14-1

• Installed Soas after login to user and startx

Note install boots to console (no DE and x)

Fedora-20 anaconda 20.12-1 installer

• Note also same installer on F20-DVD

https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/20-Alpha-TC5/Fedora/x86_64/iso/Fedora-20-Alpha-TC5-x86_64-DVD.iso

• Install Destination

• Install Destination select disk and [Back]

• Installation Options

Choose type of formatting

• Begin Installation

• Installation finished

• Reboot returns to console boot

login as User and password
startx

• Sugar Starts

NOTE yum install lightdm installs files but the lightdm DE does not start on reboot