How to install GNOME from rpm.
Hi,
I am new to this realm of Linux. I've installed RHEL5 server on my PC with a Graphical desktop. I don't know whether this GUI is based on X-Window or GNOME or KDE. My 1st question is how can I probe what type of GUI I am using? My 2nd question is how GNOME can be installed form RPM and what the sequence of installing those RPMs would be. I am neither a subscriber of RH Network nor willing to use update or yum command. When I had tried to install gnome-applets the following message was displayed. [root@unknown000cf16e754d ~]# rpm -ivh gnome-applets-2.16.0.1-19.el5.i386.rpm warning: gnome-applets-2.16.0.1-19.el5.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 37017186 Preparing... ########################################### [100%] package gnome-applets-2.16.0.1-19.el5 is already installed It shows similar type of warnings for gnome-desktop, gnome-desktop, gnome-audio also. I cannot understand the reason for this warning. I also tried "rpm -qpR" command but couldn't understand some lines in COLOR="Magenta" of the output(I truncated the huge output). I need explanations for their purpose and how to install them. [root@unknown000cf16e754d ~]# rpm -qpR gnome-applets-2.16.0.1-19.el5.i386.rpm warning: gnome-applets-2.16.0.1-19.el5.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 37017186 /bin/sh /bin/sh /bin/sh /bin/sh /usr/bin/env GConf2 >= 2.14.0 GConf2 >= 2.14.0 GConf2 >= 2.14.0 gnome-netstatus >= 2.8.0-2 gnome-panel >= 2.13.4 gnome-python2-applet gnome-python2-libegg gstreamer-plugins-base >= 0.10 gstreamer-plugins-good >= 0.10 gtk2 >= 2.6.0 libICE.so.6 libORBit-2.so.0 libSM.so.6 libX11.so.6 libart_lgpl_2.so.2 libatk-1.0.so.0 libbonobo-2.so.0 libbonobo-activation.so.4 libbonoboui-2.so.0 libc.so.6 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.3) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.4) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4) Answers of the aforementioned issues are highly appreciated. Thanks. |
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There should be and "about" item somewhere in the menu in your panel. That will tell you if you are running gnome or kde (default redhat runs gnome though). 2. Don't download packages by hand. Use the "yum" command Code:
yum install packagename |
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Anyway, GNOME and KDE are just sets of applications that use the X Window System, instead of being replacements for it. So whatever setup you are using, it still runs on top of X. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System |
i'm not very familiar with RPM. used it before for some time. Here are some of my understandings, hope it helps.
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if you are still in the console (black screen), try to find some commands such as xdm, gdm, kdm (for display manger). in a default installation, gdm would mean you get a Gnome desktop (or Xfce maybe, but they are similar), kdm for KDE, only with xdm mean only get X (it's rare, though) Quote:
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and for the last command you issued with "R" options, i suppose they are detailed dependencies (command, libraries, etc.) of "gnome-applets" rgds, tim |
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Connected the laptop to internet and ran the following command and the installation went thru like a blaze: yum groupinstall "X Window System" You need to have yum installed to run the above command. To know which package(s) to install to get yum running, use the following command: rpm -q "yum" Regarding the magenta marked items in the list: /bin/sh - is a command shell /usr/bin/env - command used to run commands in a different environment libORBit-2.so.0 - a CORBA related library libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) - Standard C library version 2.1 If you need to know details about a library of rpm, refer to the following URL: http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/ hope this helps... cheers... |
Thanks for your clarification
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A good documentation of dependencies among RPMs.
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/drafts...html#id2952284 |
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