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: >> >> 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 > > 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-b3159dc0594ab59a5ae0c27d86c3815085064419 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 >