[SOLVED] Install KDE desktop

[estebanLinux]

Has someone installed kde along with gnome 3?
Did you have any kind of problem?

Could you tell me how to do it ? But just if it isn't dangerous !

Thanks !!

[DBelton]

yes, both can be install on the same system and you can select which desktop environment you wish to use upon login.

The easiest way to install it is to use the group install in yum

su -
(root password)

yum install @kde-desktop

[estebanLinux]

Hi, thanks for the answer, I'm installing it right now.
Can I ask you something? What does the '@' character do?
Just for learning something new

[DBelton]

The "@" character tells yum to install the group kde-desktop instead of looking for an individual package named kde-desktop.

It's basically the equivalent of yum groupinstall kde-desktop

[jenaniston]

Originally Posted by DBelton

The "@" character tells yum to install the group kde-desktop instead of looking for an individual package named kde-desktop.

It's basically the equivalent of yum groupinstall kde-desktop

I was just about to add that I think that ( . . . and then just saw your post)

yum groupinstall kde-desktop

would also work.

[estebanLinux]

I understand,
Thanks !
The install of kde-desktop was perfect, 0 problems so far!!

[marko]

Originally Posted by DBelton

The "@" character tells yum to install the group kde-desktop instead of looking for an individual package named kde-desktop.

It's basically the equivalent of yum groupinstall kde-desktop

I've never understood how that works, there is no kde-desktop group according to "yum grouplist"

yum grouplist | grep "kde-desktop"


shows no output match, the actual group is called "KDE Software Compilation"

is @kde-desktop an internal alias for "KDE Software Compilation" ? If so how do we find out what these mysterious aliases are?

[DBelton]

I have wondered that one myself

if you do searches, there is no such thing as kde-desktop

But that is how the Fedora docs tell you to install KDE.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KDE

That's where I got the information from quite awhile back, and have been using it ever since if I wish to install KDE.

I don't know if there is an actual list anyplace that has all of these "hidden" groups listed.

[jenaniston]

I have been interested in this too . . .

yum grouplist

should give the name of available and installed group packages.

My groupinstall of XFCE shows up, as does the availability of LXDE which is not installed.

And so, is there a way to uninstall groups that I don want / need . . .
for example the Japanese support which apparently came installed already in this EOL Fedora KDE ?

[marko]

Originally Posted by jenaniston;1495763

And so, is there a way to [I

uninstall groups[/I] that I don want / need . . .
for example the Japanese support which apparently came installed already in this EOL Fedora KDE ?

yes there is groupremove that's the opposite of groupinstall

yum groupremove "Japanese Support"

[jenaniston]

Originally Posted by marko

yes there is groupremove that's the opposite of groupinstall

groupremove . . . got it.
Thanks alot !

[santiagobear]

Ok. Everything says that kde-desktop is already installed. But on reboot, there's no option to log-in under KDE instead of Gnome. Any suggestions?

[marko]

Originally Posted by santiagobear

Ok. Everything says that kde-desktop is already installed. But on reboot, there's no option to log-in under KDE instead of Gnome. Any suggestions?

It usually shows on the list as "KDE Plasma Workspace" or "KDE Plasma Desktop" if using the Gnome Display Manager. You don't see anything like that?

If not, I usually have good success by selecting the KDM manager instead of the GDM one,
you can do that by creating a new file:

/etc/sysconfig/desktop

that contains just the one line:

DISPLAYMANAGER=KDE

then reboot. Or if you don't want to edit a text file, you can use the "Graphical Interface" way explained here:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KDE#Graphical_interface

[santiagobear]

I simply couldn't get it to work - so finally I did

yum remove @kde

THEN - after a reboot

yum install @kde

After reboot, it finally worked. However, it also removed several programs that I want - so I had to reinstall them.

At least it's running.

Thanks for your help.

---------- Post added at 08:13 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:13 PM ----------

I simply couldn't get it to work - so finally I did

yum remove @kde

THEN - after a reboot

yum install @kde

After reboot, it finally worked. However, it also removed several programs that I want - so I had to reinstall them.

At least it's running.

Thanks for your help.

[technog1]

Guys: did you happen to notice how much extra space was required/used by the kde install ?

Curious, cause I am having some problems at suspend/resume. Someone suggested to try kde ( I currently use gnome).

tia,