[SOLVED] Add/Remove Component For CentOS 5.3

k_oudom · 09-04-2009, 04:26 AM

What is command to run Add/Remove Component for CentOS? For Ubuntu I use tasksel. While I am installing CentOS I select GNOME but I might uncheck to many component, so it boot to text mode and I can't start Graphic Mode even if I use startx.

colucix · 09-04-2009, 04:48 AM

If you can't start the X environment, you cannot run the Add/Remove software application (pirut from the command line). In text mode you have to deal with yum, the package manager. Indeed Add/Remove Software is a wrapper to run yum commands in a more comfortable graphical interface. Here is the documentation from the CentOS site: http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/yum/.

If you want to re-install (or add missing component to GNOME) you can try to install the whole group of packages. Here is some useful command line:

Code:

yum grouplist                                 ### lists all installed and available groups
yum groupinfo "GNOME Desktop Environment"     ### lists the packages in the group classified
                                              ### as mandatory, default and optional
yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment"  ### installs the specified group