Redhat 8 the hard way... adding GNOME afterwards

[scottprive at earthlink.net (Scott Prive)]

I was trying to avoid THAT because I'm a software QA tester (recently
unemployed; need a job!), and I pride myself on solving and understanding
problems. :-)

But it looks like the benefit of understanding this one is disproportionate
to the effort, so I'll do a CD software update and move on...

-Scott




----- Original Message -----
From: "Derek Atkins" <warlord at MIT.EDU>
To: "Scott Prive" <scottprive at earthlink.net>
Cc: "John Abreau" <jabr at abreau.net>; <discuss at blu.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 10:49 AM
Subject: Re: Redhat 8 the hard way... adding GNOME afterwards


> 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
> >
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> > > "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...
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > - --
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