how to install Gnome desktop from console?

[bopc]

I've set up FC1 for my home server, and did a "server" package install. I included X, but I didn't install a desktop. Now that I have X configured, I realized I will need the desktop for menus and such... stupid mistake during install. I want to use X and the graphical utils for administering my server, since I more comfortable using graphical tools than working in the console all the time. I will only load X only when I need it, so most of the time a desktop won't be running to save resources.

How do I install (using yum) Gnome in the console? Can I just do a yum install gnome-desktop.i386? Will yum grab all the dependencies? Or is there a better way?

If it's too much hassle, I might just do a re-install and select the desktop duing install, as I don't have any data on this box yet.

[feenixx]

command:
yum install gnome

should work.

[LaKing]

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No Mach for argument Gnome
Nothing to do

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i have the same problem, and thats all i get
my repros are the CDs, but with net either
gnome* either

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[jpatota]

try this:

sudo yum -y groupinstall gnome

[eman28]

Thanks for the method, it works well in FC3 too.

[Spode]

It works in FC4 too.

[chrisgapske]

Does anybody have an RPM for Astrisk ?

[Spode]

Originally Posted by chrisgapske

Does anybody have an RPM for Astrisk ?

It's Asterisk not Astrisk. So that might help your search. And you should start a new thread rather than just adding on to this one.

[ThunderB]

On Fedora 7/8

yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment"

And you will have quite a lot to download and install. What I did is use the repository on the DVD, so i didnt download anything, and the installation went really fast.

To do that:

/etc/yum.repo.d
vi Fedora-install-media.repo
in [InstallMedia]
name=Fedora 8i
baseurl=file:///media/cdr
...

That should to the work!!

cdr above is the folder i used to mount my DVD
mkdir cdr
mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdr


Good luck

Shailen Sobhee
http://digitalgraphy.wordpress.com
ai [dot] revolutions [at] gmail [dot] com

Mauritius

[forkbomb]

Any particular reason you dug up a two year-old thread?

[LinuxNoobie]

Originally Posted by tjvanwyk

Any particular reason you dug up a two year-old thread?

lol. thanks to him my problem is solved!

[SanjayPethe]

Originally Posted by ThunderB

On Fedora 7/8

yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment"

And you will have quite a lot to download and install. What I did is use the repository on the DVD, so i didnt download anything, and the installation went really fast.

To do that:

/etc/yum.repo.d
vi Fedora-install-media.repo
in [InstallMedia]
name=Fedora 8i
baseurl=file:///media/cdr
...

That should to the work!!

cdr above is the folder i used to mount my DVD
mkdir cdr
mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdr


Good luck

Shailen Sobhee
http://digitalgraphy.wordpress.com
ai [dot] revolutions [at] gmail [dot] com

Mauritius

Thanks for the tip. This worked for me in Fedora 9 as well. I had uninstalled GNOME, and could not get it working again until I did this because a bunch of packages were missing.

Thanks much !!

[livayahurd]

Originally Posted by ThunderB

On Fedora 7/8

yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment"

Mauritius

This command works on Fedora 13 as well

[srpsrp]

it also worked in fedora 14 !

I'm trying to see how Xvnc works with gnome on a virtual private server
( which did not come with gnome !)

[ThunderWolf]

Yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment". This worked for me as well in Fedora 15. Thanks very much! And please don't remove this thread as long it remains useful. I installed KDE and have been making a program in Java which seems to have different effect's in different window managers.