Redhat 8 the hard way... adding GNOME afterwards

[Derek Atkins]

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:

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> 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:
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> > > [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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