Thanks, that's what I wanted to hear.  Whether 'groupinstall gnome' was sufficient or whether I had to manually handle the dependencies as well.  And, tips for a more complete solution that would satisfy my expectations.



Troy Dawson wrote:
> Ken Teh wrote:
>> I suppose I could test this if I had a sacrificial machine, but I'm 
>> hoping someone can simply confirm that it does work.  I have a 4.2 
>> server machine which was not installed with the gnome desktop.  I need 
>> to do so now and was wondering if 'yum groupinstall gnome' would do 
>> the trick.
>>
>> Thanks!
> 
> Hi,
> This all depends on if you already have all the X stuff installed and 
> just need the gnome desktop, or if you installed something very light, 
> like a server.
> 
> If you already have X installed and working, like if you installed KDE 
> and you now want gnome installed, then you can almost do what you said, 
> but not quite.
> 
> First - get the list of groups
>   yum grouplist
> 
> Then - do a groupinstall with the group in quotes, so what you would 
> want to do is
>   yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment"
> and that will pull in all the gnome stuff.
> 
> But, the odds are that you are asking because you have a server 
> installed, and want a full graphical desktop, including the graphical 
> login screen.
> If you do just the gnome desktop, it is going to get you just that, the 
> gnome desktop and enough X stuff to satisfy dependancies.  But it won't 
> get you the gdm, or any of the X configuration stuff.  So you probrubly 
> want
> 
>   yum groupinstall "X Window System"
>   yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment"
> as well as
>   yum groupinstall "Graphical Internet"
>   yum groupinstall "Printing Support"
>   yum groupinstall "System Tools"
>   yum groupinstall "Text-based Internet"
> 
> Troy