RL9 Install Mate DE After Minimal Install

Rocky Linux General
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I installed the Mate Desktop after doing a minimal install of RL9.1 using the RL8.5 instructions for install Mate. The Powertools repo is not needed just epel and those repos enabled by default. It really helps to enable the Cockpit tool so you can copy and paste directly from the instruction page into a terminal. My first attempt failed with missing dependency errors so I inserted --skip-broken thus "

sudo dnf --skip-broken install <long list of packages>"

which then succeeded. Continued the install of followup packages per the documentation enabled the graphical target and rebooted.
The reboot dumped me into an emergency shell due to a switch root problem so I just rebooted again and was able to log in to my Mate desktop.

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The repo name in 9 is called crb instead of powertools. I’ve asked the documentation team in the past to make some corrections for this but it seems the 9 section only talks about the live image.

I would highly recommend enabling crb and running a dnf check. Using --skip-broken may have causes some issues that you may want to get it corrected.

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I should ( dnf check ) but until BackupPC is supported It is not a route I’m actively going to pursue. I did enable crb in search of that software.
Most if not all of the missing dependencies were abrt related and not a high priority of mine as I disable most of that functionality once installed.