[SOLVED] HowTo: Reinstall GNOME Desktop Environment

[rustydraper62]

Hello All,

I have quite successfully destroyed my desktop environment by running yum groupremove "GNOME Desktop Environment" .

I have however, successfully booted up my Fedora 16 install dvd and am running in troubleshooting mode, with GNOME working. I have also successfully mounted my rootvol on /media.

My question is, if I run yum --installroot=/media --releasever=/ groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment", will this restore the desktop to my hard disk?

[root@localhost ~]# df -k
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs 4128448 2427256 1659260 60% /
devtmpfs 8199620 8 8199612 1% /dev
tmpfs 8207112 228 8206884 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 8207112 30928 8176184 1% /run
/dev/sr0 8207112 30928 8176184 1% /run/initramfs/live
/dev/mapper/live-rw 4128448 2427256 1659260 60% /
tmpfs 8207112 30928 8176184 1% /run
tmpfs 8207112 0 8207112 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs 927878664 82013156 798732020 10% /media
/dev/sr0 618204 618204 0 100% /mnt/live
varcacheyum 8207112 160540 8046572 2% /var/cache/yum
/tmp 8207112 472 8206640 1% /tmp
vartmp 8207112 0 8207112 0% /var/tmp
/dev/mapper/vg_mattresskitte-lv_root 927878664 82013156 798732020 10% /media
[root@localhost ~]#

Thanks in advance!

~R

---------- Post added 13th February 2012 at 02:02 AM ---------- Previous post was 12th February 2012 at 08:40 PM ----------

SOLVED - ran the command, all is well.

[AceRoom]

Could you please mark the thread as solved. It should be there at the top in Thread Tools.

Read the whole thing before noticing the SOLVED at the bottom

But this reinstall method is good to know.

[rustydraper62]

Marked SOLVED - Sorry about that Aceroom - I'm a newb forum poster.

[AceRoom]

No problem