[CentOS] group install KDE does not enable runtime?

James B. Byrne wrote:

> In my continuing investigation of CentOS-7 I did yet another minimal
> install. Subsequent to that I ran yum update kernel, and then yum group
> install KDE.
> 
> Now, KDE installed about 480Mb of stuff, which compares favourably to
> Gnome's
> 971Mb.  However, when I run startx from the command line, instead of
> getting a desktop I see these errors instead:
> 
> xauth: file /root/.serverauth.12462 does not exist
> 
> xinit: unable to run server "/usr/bin/X": No such file or directory
> 
> Followed by instructions on how to link "/usr/bin/X" to ones choice of
> display
> server.  This seems a little awkward for a mature distro.  Is it really
> the case that one must hand link files to get any other desktop instead of
> gnome? is this by design?

Yes, it pretty much assumes you have a working X server, you probably ought 
to install at least the 'base-x' group too.

-- Rex