On 01/08/2014 07:00 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: > 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. Two suggestions: 1. Make the last suggestion easier -- browse to port 631 from another computer and use the browser interface to set up CUPS. (You may have to set a permission in a CUPS setup file to browse from another computer--been a while since i did this.) 2. "ssh -X root@<FQDN> system-config-printer" from an X-windows terminal program and your printer configuration will pop up in a window on the other computer. I use that for all kinds of things. You only need a couple of files {something about xauth... and font file(s)} and you can do GUI-based configuration on a headless server. [Works great for headless KVM hosts.] Ted Miller