On 01/07/2014 08:27 PM, Warren Young wrote: > I installed the RHEL 7 beta here to test while waiting for CentOS 7 to > arrive. On noticing that yum didn't work, I decided to set up a local > mirror. I rsync'd > > ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/rhel/beta/7/x86_64/os/Packages/ > > to a local web server here, then regenerated the repodata directory with > createrepo. > > Now yum works fine, for the most part. "yum search foo" pulls up a > plausible list of packages, "yum install bar" chases dependencies as > expected, etc. > > Unfortunately, "yum groupinstall" isn't working, which means I have no > easy way to install Gnome on my minimal EL7 installation. Apparently I > need some kind of "groups file" to feed to createrepo --groupfile, but I > don't know where to get one, or how to construct one. I've dug around > on ftp.redhat.com and can't find anything that looks plausible. > > I've tried manually installing packages to build up this GNOME desktop, > but despite installing dozens of things, startx still doesn't give me > something usable. > > I know I could get a GNOME desktop by reinstalling the OS, but that > would wipe out a lot of the local work I've done on this VM so far. > > The only reason I need X in the first place is that > system-config-printer no longer runs in text mode. > > (I'm trying to set up a CUPS server. So yeah, X11 is a prerequisite for > installing a printer now. Lovely.) How about using http://localhost:631 with lynx or some other such text based browser. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ****