On Sat, 25 Dec 2010 09:12:20 -0800, Akemi Yagi <[log in to unmask]> 
 wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 5:49 AM, patrickm <[log in to unmask]> 
> wrote:
>> On the (first) installation DVD I couldn't find the package.
>> Copying it from the RHEL6 DVD (where it was present) didn't solve 
>> the
>> problem either (not even when I used createrepo to create new index 
>> files).
>
> That is strange. In my test installs of SL alpha3, yum did find gdm 
> on
> both i386 and x86_64 platforms. That is, I did a minimal install in
> both cases and installed "Desktop" using yum (from the SL site). gdm
> was installed just fine.

 Still, on the DVD the gdm package isn't present.
 And I checked the sha1sum...

 Regards,
 Patrick

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