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How-To Install Gnome 2 (MATE) on Fedora Linux

If you don`t like Gnome 3 and want the Gnome 2 desktop environment back on Fedora Linux, this guide is for you.

Open the terminal and run:

sudo yum groupinstall MATE-Desktop

How-To Install Gnome 2 (MATE) on Fedora Linux 17

If you – like me – don`t like Gnome 3 and want the Gnome 2 desktop environment back on Fedora 17, this guide is for you.

Open the terminal and run:
su yum install https://dl.dropbox.com/u/49862637/Mate-desktop/fedora_17/mate-desktop-fedora-updates/noarch/mate-desktop-release-17-2.fc17.noarch.rpm yum groupinstall MATE-Desktop