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I am using a computer system with the gnome desktop system, with which I am not able to work properly (resizing of windows does not work etc). Therefore I would like to install the unity-desktop.

Is that possible on Redhat (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation release 6.8 (Santiago))? And if so, how?

A simple yum install unity did not find anything....

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  • Not an answer, but may I suggest Cinnamon? It is much better (IMO) than either gnome or unity. Commented Jan 18, 2017 at 11:47
  • Sure! So how to install it then? Commented Jan 18, 2017 at 11:48
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    yum install cinnamon should work. I don't know the package names in the RRH world though. Just search through the repos (same should be true for unity, if you choose to install that). Commented Jan 18, 2017 at 11:49
  • I tried that already, but is says: No package cinnamon available. Commented Jan 18, 2017 at 11:53
  • Try rpm search engines like rpmfind.net. If that still doesn't help, you might need to install from source. Sorry, but I really don't know much about the RH world, haven't used a RH-based system for more than 10 years. Commented Jan 18, 2017 at 11:59

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The EPEL [Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux] repository is easily added to RedHat and CentOS servers. It's an excellent, well-vetted source of additional packages not otherwise found in the standard channels. Install the EPEL package and you should be able to do `yum install cinnamon'.

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    I think I have installed EPEL by using yum install epel-release -y, but still I get the response No package cinnamon available. ... Commented Jan 18, 2017 at 14:00
  • I don't have a RH 6.8 server available. Confirm that you in fact have the EPEL repository installed by doing yum repolist. Commented Jan 18, 2017 at 14:05
  • It says epel Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 - x86_64 12,214+1repolist: 59,675 (among other output) Commented Jan 18, 2017 at 14:08
  • OK, you do have the EPEL repo. FWIW, I find cinnamon for CentOS-7 at least, that's not what we want. Commented Jan 18, 2017 at 14:28

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