To install KDE Desktop, type this:
yum groupinstall "X Window System" "KDE (K Desktop Environment)"
To install Gnome Desktop, type this:
yum groupinstall "X Window System" "GNOME Desktop Environment"
After the installation is finished, type this to start KDE or GNOME:
startx
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On CentOS 6 use
yum groupinstall “KDE Desktop”
It will be approximately a 240MB download
Gracias, Dean Kamali, por el dato de CentOS 6
Thanks Dean.
if i run startx command it will show fatal server error
Is there a way to backup the downloaded KDE packages so they don’t have to be downloaded again in subsequent installations of Linux?
Hi Ryan, actually you can, but you will have to create a kickstart image, and use it for all your installation. You might have some issues due to the hardware, but in general you will not have any problem with that. I recommend you look after kickstart configuration examples. You’ll have to read a lot and to make some tests, but it’s doable. Maybe this link it can be the start point: http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installation_Guide/sn-automating-installation.html
GoodLuck,
Johnutz
I am running Centos 6.2 underVMware on a Windows 7 box ( my home desktop) on AMD64 with 8Gb memory ( Dell XPS). when I installed gnome desktop and tried startx I got a bumch of errors about :
expected kysym got ( I didn’t write it down.. something about kbd maybe? ) installing kde desktop WORKED.