Re-Installing broken Gnome Desktop on a RHEL box.

pwwws · 02-25-2010, 10:48 AM

Morning All, I have a RHEL 4 box with a broken GNOME package. It boots to TWM. I have looked at some of the posts that recommend looking at config files etc. No .xinitrc file found. Cannot "exec gnome-session" , cannot find file. No choice at login screen. Some Gnome files are on the machine. How do download and re-install the entire Gnome-Desktop package? Thanks.

smoker · 02-25-2010, 01:24 PM

Have you got yum ?

Code:

yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment"

You might also need

Code:

yum install gdm

pwwws · 02-25-2010, 01:53 PM

Hello, No yum. I tried installing yum but running into Python issues. I only have RPM.

smoker · 02-25-2010, 02:23 PM

You must have up2date on there as well.
You can try using the command I gave but replace yum with up2date

Have you still got a redhat subscription ?

chrism01 · 02-25-2010, 10:13 PM

For RHEL 4 the tool is 'up2date'; yum came in for v5.
Here's a Rosetta Stone for you
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-2531

pwwws · 02-26-2010, 07:45 AM

Thanks guys. I will try these. I do have a subscription.