RHEL 6 install gnome packages manually?
BILL
Somehow during the installation, I was not prompted any choice for
what packages to install - normally installation will give selections
for different packages set. I tried on this laptop twice and I got
same result - it only installed the very minimum packages and it is
running text mode. I checked, there is no any X or gnome related rpm
installed.
So I am considering to manually install the gnome-required rpms. But
here I get two questions:
1) what is the most top-level rpm name for gnome GUI to run? is it
gnome-desktop*.rpm ?
2) I tried to use rpm -ivh --aid gnome-desktop*.rpm
it still cannot installed the dependent rpms.
question: do we have a decent way to let rpm install all the
required rpms?
Thanks.
Jan Gerrit Kootstra
yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment"
is the only way I would know how to fix it.
Kind regards,
Jan Gerrit Kootstra
BILL
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Jan,
Thanks for the reply. there are two issues for me to run yum
groupinstall ...
1) the NIC for the machine is not working yet
2) I don't have an activated RHN...
wondering whether yum can do groupinstall from the CD dosc?
Thanks.
Jan Gerrit Kootstra
Bill,
Let's assume you have an active subscription for the box.
An approach I use is.
create a mount point in a second level directory a create my own repository.
So this is the way I would go:
mkdir /media/dvd
mount /dev/dvd /media/dvd
yum localinstall /media/dvd/Server/createrepo...rpm
mkdir /myrepo/
cd /myrepo
cat /media/dvd/*/repodata/*.xml >> mycomps.xml
vi mycomps.xml
#remove all <comps> </comps>
#except the top <comps> and
#the bottom </comps>
cp -av /media/dvd .
createrepo -g mycomps .
vi /etc/yum.repos.d/rhel60-dvd.repo
[myrhel6]
name=Red Hat Enterprise Linux x86_64
baseurl=file:///myrepo
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release
SUCCESS,
Jan Gerrit
Jan Gerrit Kootstra
> BILL schreef:
>
>
> Let's assume you have an active subscription for the box.
>
> An approach I use is.
> create a mount point in a second level directory a create my own
> repository.
>
> So this is the way I would go:
>
> mkdir /media/dvd
>
> mount /dev/dvd /media/dvd
>
> yum localinstall /media/dvd/Server/createrepo...rpm
>
> mkdir /myrepo/
>
> cd /myrepo
>
> cat /media/dvd/*/repodata/*.xml >> mycomps.xml
> vi mycomps.xml
> #remove all <comps> </comps>
> #except the top <comps> and
> #the bottom </comps>
>
> cp -av /media/dvd .
>
>
>
> vi /etc/yum.repos.d/rhel60-dvd.repo
> [myrhel6]
> name=Red Hat Enterprise Linux x86_64
> baseurl=file:///myrepo
> enabled=1
> gpgcheck=0
> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release
>
>
> SUCCESS,
>
>
> Jan Gerrit
>
See above.
I made some errors in the original reply that is why this looks like
another posting.
The errors were to annoying that is why I retracted it.
Kind regards,
Jan Gerrit
Dr Vangel
Bill,
you can save time from reinstalling by using the shell to install the rest
of t he GUI stuff.
this single command should do the trick
#yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment"
If your system does not support yum you can try this guide I found
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/rhel-centos-fedora-linux-yum-command-howto/
This guy is usually right on the money with his guides.
regards
Vangel
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AreefRakhangi
> >I installed RHEL 6.0 (from a DVD distribution disc) on my laptop.
> >Somehow during the installation, I was not prompted any choice for
> >what packages to install - normally installation will give selections
> >for different packages set. I tried on this laptop twice and I got
> >same result - it only installed the very minimum packages and it is
> >running text mode. I checked, there is no any X or gnome related rpm
> >installed.
>
> >So I am considering to manually install the gnome-required rpms. But
> >here I get two questions:
>
> >1) what is the most top-level rpm name for gnome GUI to run? is it
> >gnome-desktop*.rpm ?
>
> >2) I tried to use rpm -ivh --aid gnome-desktop*.rpm
> > it still cannot installed the dependent rpms.
> > question: do we have a decent way to let rpm install all the
> >required rpms?
>
> >Thanks.
>
> Bill,
> you can save time from reinstalling by using the shell to install the rest
> of t he GUI stuff.
>
> this single command should do the trick
> #yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment"
>
>
> This guy is usually right on the money with his guides.
>
> regards
> Vangel
>
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Also if your memory is less you will not be able to install the gnome
properly. ensure you have dedicated atleast around 512 MB of ram
lje...@gmail.com
1. go to redhats website and reisgter a FREE 30 day trail of RHEL
2. use the account to ebaled 'rhen_register' on the machine you want to download rpms yum packages ti
3. 'yum update' to get all the latest versions or rpms already installed
4. 'yum groupinstall "X Window System" Desktop' to isntall gnome desktop
5. think about having a support account with redhat if this is a production service
Huru Hasanova
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