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You know, you can always re-run the installer and use Red Hat's "upgrade" mechanism to install new package-groups... -derek "Scott Prive" <scottprive at earthlink.net> writes: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Abreau" <jabr at abreau.net> > To: "Scott Prive" <scottprive at earthlink.net> > Cc: <discuss at blu.org> > Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 6:43 AM > Subject: Re: Redhat 8 the hard way... adding GNOME afterwards > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > "Scott Prive" <scottprive at earthlink.net> writes: > > > > > [grumble gumble..] > > > > > > I need some advice troubleshooting an incomplete or faulty GNOME > install. > > > It's not a huge problem -- I have workarounds, and I could hack my "." > files > > > if needed, but I'd like to fix this 'correctly'. > > > > I just had a similar problem myself. My main Linux box died a few months > > ago, and I just put in a new motherboard to resurrect it this weekend. > > I was having difficulty with the install, and finally gave up on the CDs > > and did a bare-bones install over NFS. > > > > After that I poked around to figure out how to easily add the rest. > > In earlier releases there was gnorpm, but that disappeared a while back. > > I finally found that the replacement is called "redhat-config-packages", > > and it provides essentially the same graphical view that you see during > > installation (not full-screen, unless you run at 800x600 resolution). > > Installing all the gnome stuff was trivially easy after that. > > Although Debian doesn't have much in the way of installer friendliness, it > DOES have metapackages and automatic selection of dependencies. If this > fails, I think I'm back on Debian. > > > > > My one complaint was that it insisted on installing from the actual CDs; > > I saw no way of pointing it to an iso image or a directory of RPMs. > > With gnorpm, I could just point it at the distribution's RPMS directory > > on a remote NFS server. > > Thanks for the tip, especially since I don't keep a CD drive in the box... > > > > > > > - -- > > John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix > > Email jabr at blu.org / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 > > PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 > > > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) > > Comment: Exmh version 2.6 02/09/2003 > > > > iQCVAwUBPmXi5VV9A5rVx7XZAQLewAP+KU4XOAPHesRY4ccCDLVP2hBN59eBUnAB > > 1IUrEvs7gYANbTih9bIIlc/Uv6207BqTz1UbRvzYyFP/r+Sg/e0rFF698zOH/Tl4 > > 7usWz51oM1Ja7O/yaIcQ8yH/miHPwIl7bxMJXQfFoEBGuxhYPZKQGXVTvBf4G7dj > > kYpI2UHf+os= > > =S04G > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at blu.org > http://www.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH warlord at MIT.EDU PGP key available
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