Need to load KDE rpm - RHEL 5
Hi all -
I have a basic question - please excuse my ignorance here… A user needs the KDE desktop and it is not an option selection at the "login screen"… I did an: rpm -qa | grep -I kde and got only a few "lockdev" hits, so I assumed kde is not loaded... I did a yum list | grep kde and noticed the following: kdeaccessibility.x86_64 1:3.5.4-1.fc6 rhelupdates kdeaddons.x86_64 3.5.4-1.fc6 rhelupdates kdeaddons-atlantikdesigner.x86_64 3.5.4-1.fc6 rhelupdates kdeadmin.x86_64 7:3.5.4-3.el5 rhelupdates kdeartwork.x86_64 3.5.4-1.fc6 rhelupdates kdeartwork-icons.x86_64 3.5.4-1.fc6 rhelupdates kdebase.i386 6:3.5.4-20.el5 rhelupdates kdebase.x86_64 6:3.5.4-20.el5 rhelupdates kdebindings.x86_64 3.5.4-6.el5 rhelupdates kdegames.x86_64 6:3.5.4-1.fc6 rhelupdates kdegames.i386 6:3.5.4-1.fc6 rhelupdates kdegraphics.x86_64 7:3.5.4-15.el5_4.2 rhelupdates kdelibs.i386 6:3.5.4-25.el5_4.1 rhelupdates kdelibs.x86_64 6:3.5.4-25.el5_4.1 rhelupdates kdelibs-apidocs.x86_64 6:3.5.4-25.el5_4.1 rhelupdates kdemultimedia.x86_64 6:3.5.4-2.fc6 rhelupdates kdemultimedia.i386 6:3.5.4-2.fc6 rhelupdates kdenetwork.x86_64 7:3.5.4-9.el5 rhelupdates kdenetwork.i386 7:3.5.4-9.el5 rhelupdates kdepim.x86_64 6:3.5.4-6.el5 rhelupdates kdeutils.x86_64 6:3.5.4-5.fc6 rhelupdates unixODBC-kde.i386 2.2.11-7.1 rhelupdates unixODBC-kde.x86_64 2.2.11-7.1 rhelupdates If I want kde capability, do I have to singly do a yum install on each of the above? Is there "one" rpm I can install to get ALLLL of KDE??? |
the whole point of yum is that is handles all the dependencies automatically. Just run "yum install @kde-desktop"
And just because a package contains the letters k, d and e, doesn't mean you need it, and doesn't mean that's all you need. there are many many packages not listed there, e.g. qt. |
Hi acid_kewpie -
Thanks for the response... I get this: [root@larry /]# yum install @kde-desktop Loading "rhnplugin" plugin Loading "security" plugin Repository 'extras' is missing name in configuration, using id This system is not registered with RHN. RHN support will be disabled. Setting up Install Process Parsing package install arguments No package @kde-desktop available. Nothing to do [root@larry /]# |
Well you haven't registered with RHN, so are you expecting to get these updates from local media? if you do have local media, you cna try an alternative format - yum groupinstall "KDE (K Desktop Environment)". If you don't want to / can't update this via yum, use system-configure-packages to add it in there, and it should ask for installation media to be inserted on demand.
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pyroman59???
WTF Quote:
from the above it looks like a Frankenstein's monster a mix of fedora 6 and the rhel/centOS el5 this is NOT a RedHat " RHEL 5" install .I do know WHAT it is . can you please post the output of this Code:
yum repolist and this Code:
uname -r |
sadly rhel5 does contain a LOT of fedora RPM's... very odd, you'd have thought they would at least rename them...
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Output:
[root@larry harness]# yum repolist Loading "rhnplugin" plugin Loading "security" plugin Repository 'extras' is missing name in configuration, using id This system is not registered with RHN. RHN support will be disabled. repo id repo name status rhelupdates Red Hat Linux 5Client enabled [root@larry harness]# [root@larry harness]# uname -r 2.6.18-92.el5 I am connecting to my company's internal Linux support server for rpm updates, etc. I used a RHEL5 blockpoint image to build the machine... |
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that is odd .I run cent 5.4 and in gdm ( and kdm ,my default) there is an option once i type in the user name and before i type the password at the bottom of the screen on the bottom tool bar |
All -
Thanks for the feedback... It ended up I did the following and we got it to work: yum install kdebase |
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