Before I clean my hard disks
and USB sticks of everything linux and go back to Unix and VMS
(a very
expensive proposition for me), I would like to know if there is a way to tell
SL 7.3 to install
KDE, please!? Is there a way to tell the installation tool not
to install google, please? Is there a way
to tell the installation tool not to
install gnome, please?
I have been using computers
for some 45 years now, using as what it is, a computer, a machine to make
computations i.e. to write programs to make a living. I have no inclination to
use the thing as music box,
movie theater, porn joint or as a tool to be used by google facebook
& Co to spy on me.
The recent versions of Fedora
do not allow access to a command line and I tried SL. Although I told ana-
conda to
ignore gnome and install KDE, the thing did the opposite. I was really depressed but I decided
I had no other choice. I tried a
smaller file that explicitly said it contained only KDE.
To my horror I found
out that I was not able
to install the software I
need for my work because virtually
everything depends on libraries and SL comes
with virtually no libraries. I spent many nights trying to install
libraries
and it quickly became a nightmare because of the interdependencies. The people who coined the
word “nightmare” had that situation in
mind.
Technical software that was a
trivial task to install on Red Hat 7
back in 2000 is uninstallable on SL in 2017.
I cannot even install clamav or splint which
was trivial on Fedora 6. But at least I
have access to a command
line, lucky me......................
I do not use yum and yam and
git and whatever for two reasons: first I want to know what is on my hard disks
and second my box is not connected to the Internet, it is in a Faraday cage,
the power cord and the cables heavily
filtered and isolated. I communicate with the
Internet using other peoples' boxes. No, I do not fear law enforcement,
I fear
google & facebook.
A few weeks ago I observed
that there was a new large file of SL, 8 Gbytes large. After spending more than
20
hours trying to understand why downloading
a file larger than 4Gbytes was failing, I reformatted my usb stick from
vfat32
to ntfs and installed the stuff. I immediately observed that KDE was not
installed although I clearly told
the installation tool to do so. Needless to
say, I have no way to check what else was not installed. Using gparted
I
deleted the stuff on the spot and I have to spend countless hours now to check
if google left spies on my already
installed system. I know from previous
experience with SL that the installation tool is hardwired to install certain
things only, independently of the user's decisions and entries. Really sad..........
As Huxley said some 80 years
ago, Brave New World..........................
But I have promised to my
Gods, I will never love the big brother........
Please help!!!!
Thank you!!