How to install Gnome into centos

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doctortonic
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How to install Gnome into centos

Post by doctortonic » 2012/03/26 15:21:47

Hello! I have installed centos with "minimal" option for keeping the system smallest as possible.

But I am very unfamilared with how to install/remove packages from command line for centos/rhel/fedora/suse. I haven't used till now a .rpm distro.


Now, how can I install gnome?

There are different packages for gnome, as gnome-meta or gnome-lite?

The package of gnome 3 is ready / exist for centos 6?


[root@centos /]# uname -a
Linux centos 2.6.32-220.7.1.el6.i686 #1 SMP Tue Mar 6 21:21:22 GMT 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[root@centos /]#



:hammer:

If I would be in ubuntu I would have these scenarios:

[code]sudo apt-get install gnome-shell[/code]

or

[code]sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop[/code]

In freeBSD I would search the package on freshports.org




or trought ports

[code]cd /usr/ports/x11/gnome2/ && make install clean[/code][code]pkg_add -r gnome2[/code]

Or gnome lite

[code]cd /usr/ports/x11/gnome2-lite/ && make install clean[/code]

[code]pkg_add -r gnome2-lite[/code]


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How can I do this MAGIC into CENTOS?

What are my options?

HenrykD
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How to install Gnome into centos

Post by HenrykD » 2012/03/26 17:23:43

What google says?

For example: [url=http://www.jbmurphy.com/2011/12/01/how-to-add-gnome-to-centos-6-minimal-install/]How to add Gnome to a CentOS 6 minimal install[/url].

doctortonic
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Re: How to install Gnome into centos

Post by doctortonic » 2012/03/26 18:16:46

Thank you!

This was very useful!

Yes, I did some Google searches but I didn't land on that link maybe because my key-searching words where different.

Apostate
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Re: How to install Gnome into centos

Post by Apostate » 2012/03/26 18:46:05

How about

[code]yum install gnome-desktop[/code]

?

That might do it - although I have never tried it.

YBellefeuille
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Re: How to install Gnome into centos

Post by YBellefeuille » 2012/03/26 21:51:38

Please see Installing Software, and in particular the information on Groups.

[code][root@localhost ~]# yum grouplist

Installed Groups:
General Purpose Desktop
KDE Desktop
Xfce

[Lots omitted.][/code]

KDE and Xfce are specifically mentioned, but Gnome isn't. Perhaps "General Purpose Desktop" is what we need.

[code][root@localhost ~]# yum groupinfo "General Purpose Desktop"

Group: General Purpose Desktop
Description: A general purpose desktop that adds to Desktop and provides full GNOME features.

[Lots omitted.][/code]

Indeed, "General Purpose Desktop" is what we're looking for. Do [b]yum groupinstall "General Purpose Desktop"[/b] to install it. Apparently another group called "Desktop" is also required, but probably yum will install whatever is required from that group as a dependency.

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