[CentOS] installing Desktop faster

Sat Sep 6 17:48:33 UTC 2014
Andrew Holway <andrew.holway at gmail.com>

On 6 September 2014 17:46, Gergely Buday <gbuday at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I installed centos 7 -- it works great.
>
> What made me think is that installation took 1300 packages for a Desktop
> with some add-ons.
>
> As usual, there might be a solution for this already but I do not know it.
> Would it be possible to create one big package for a standard Desktop? Then
> an installation would not take ages.
>

Do you mean yum groupinstall?

in Centos 6.5;

yum groupinstall "X Window System" "KDE Desktop Environment" "Fonts"

Will install a Desktop on a minimal install.

Cheers,

Andrew


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> - Gergely
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