Installing GNOME DESKTOP ENVIRONMENT from command line on fedora 8

alok2cool · 09-07-2009, 11:38 PM

Hi All,
My gnome desktop crashed after i enabled the desktop effects, now i am able to access the command line , i would like to know how to install Gnome desktop from command line using the fedora 8 dvd and not via yum.

hurry_hui · 09-08-2009, 01:30 AM

IIRC, it is OK to install via yum, as long as the only repo you are enabled is fedora-install-media.repo which represents Fedora 8 DVD and left other repo(s) disabled. Then you need to yum install gnome-desktop...

PS: you need to edit manually all repos in /etc/yum.repos.d

CMIIW

alok2cool · 09-09-2009, 01:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hurry_hui

IIRC, it is OK to install via yum, as long as the only repo you are enabled is fedora-install-media.repo which represents Fedora 8 DVD and left other repo(s) disabled. Then you need to yum install gnome-desktop...

PS: you need to edit manually all repos in /etc/yum.repos.d

CMIIW

Thanks for the support,
I solved it anyway , i got into the TWM display manager and then installed system-config-packages via yum and then installed gnome again from the DVD.then ran metacity --replace ..restored the gnome and its working fine ..