Friday, February 1, 2013

Re: [LINUX_Newbies] install x on centos 5

 

On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 06:05:20PM -0000, Pierre wrote:
> Hi!

>
> I am trying to install x-windows on a machine that run on centos 5
>
> I did a group install of gnome with this command:
>
> yum -y groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment"
>
> What am I doing wrong..
>
> X is supposed to install itself with the gnome group..??

Probably not. RH is weird with dependencies.

You can find out with

yum provides */X

And you'll find that the X package is provided by xorg-x11-server-Xorg

So,

yum -y install xorg-x11-server-Xorg and you will have X.

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