Hi,
Until last week, I could install a CentOS 7 based desktop using the following approach:
1. Install minimal system.
2. yum groupinstall "X Window System"
3. yum install gdm gnome-classic-session gnome-terminal liberation-fonts
4. Install applications as needed.
This morning, the package group "X Window System" seems to have disappeared. This is embarrassing.
What happened?
Niki
Try
yum groupinstall Xfce
or yum groupinstall "MATE Desktop"
or yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop"
or yum groupinstall "Server with GUI"
suomi
On 02/27/2015 10:54 AM, Niki Kovacs wrote:
Hi,
Until last week, I could install a CentOS 7 based desktop using the following approach:
Install minimal system.
yum groupinstall "X Window System"
yum install gdm gnome-classic-session gnome-terminal liberation-fonts
Install applications as needed.
This morning, the package group "X Window System" seems to have disappeared. This is embarrassing.
What happened?
Niki
On 27/02/15 09:54, Niki Kovacs wrote:
Hi,
Until last week, I could install a CentOS 7 based desktop using the following approach:
Install minimal system.
yum groupinstall "X Window System"
yum install gdm gnome-classic-session gnome-terminal liberation-fonts
Install applications as needed.
This morning, the package group "X Window System" seems to have disappeared. This is embarrassing.
What happened?
Niki
Not sure as I don't have a CentOS 7 install to hand, only RHEL7 on which the "X Window System" group does not exist.
It does exist on RHEL 5/6 - perhaps you are getting confused between versions?
You can see the list of valid groups with:
yum grouplist
On 02/27/2015 02:54 AM, Niki Kovacs wrote:
Hi,
Until last week, I could install a CentOS 7 based desktop using the following approach:
Install minimal system.
yum groupinstall "X Window System"
yum install gdm gnome-classic-session gnome-terminal liberation-fonts
Install applications as needed.
This morning, the package group "X Window System" seems to have disappeared. This is embarrassing.
What happened?
Niki
Works for me, although I have to do "yum group list hidden" to see the "X Window System" group (both as available for installation, and as installed once I've done the group install invocation). "yum group list hidden" and "yum group list hidden ids" are 2 variations I only learned about recently...
Nice recipe, BTW, for a simple GUI install. The spacing of the font doesn't look very good in Gnome terminal though; I must be missing whatever the default font is configured to be.
-Greg
On 27/02/15 13:27, Greg Bailey wrote:
On 02/27/2015 02:54 AM, Niki Kovacs wrote:
Hi,
Until last week, I could install a CentOS 7 based desktop using the following approach:
Install minimal system.
yum groupinstall "X Window System"
yum install gdm gnome-classic-session gnome-terminal liberation-fonts
Install applications as needed.
This morning, the package group "X Window System" seems to have disappeared. This is embarrassing.
What happened?
Niki
Works for me, although I have to do "yum group list hidden" to see the "X Window System" group (both as available for installation, and as installed once I've done the group install invocation). "yum group list hidden" and "yum group list hidden ids" are 2 variations I only learned about recently...
Nice tip! I've added it to the Yum tips and tricks section on the wiki as there wasn't anything there on working with yum groups:
http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/YumAndRPM#head-b3159dc0594ab59a5ae0c27d...
Note 'yum group list' only works on el7 whereas 'yum grouplist' works across el5/6/7 so I've gone with that syntax on the wiki.
Nice recipe, BTW, for a simple GUI install. The spacing of the font doesn't look very good in Gnome terminal though; I must be missing whatever the default font is configured to be.
-Greg
Greg Bailey wrote:
On 02/27/2015 02:54 AM, Niki Kovacs wrote:
Until last week, I could install a CentOS 7 based desktop using the following approach:
- Install minimal system.
- yum groupinstall "X Window System"
- yum install gdm gnome-classic-session gnome-terminal liberation-fonts
- Install applications as needed.
This morning, the package group "X Window System" seems to have disappeared. This is embarrassing.
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Works for me, although I have to do "yum group list hidden" to see the
That's *weird* . Why would you even want "hidden" groups?
I was looking on a 7 box, and did see an "environment" group of "Server with GUI"; I also see, under available groups, Desktop, and Desktop Platform. I have no idea what the difference is.... I wish they'd have "user install groups" and "expert install groups", so that when the CentOS desktop clobbers Ubuntu, and Mint, and all the rest, those of us who know what we're doing, and/or working on servers, can install more easily....
mark
Le 27/02/2015 16:01, m.roth@5-cent.us a écrit :
That's*weird* . Why would you even want "hidden" groups?
Weird and... not very intelligent. To say it politely.
:o)
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