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
yum groupinstall “KDE Desktop”
yum groupinstall “KDE desktop”
2nd line is correct:
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.
Thx. I really was need for this info
On my Centos6.3 VM (Windows on host) I had GNOME, and I wanted to use KDE. It seemed like it wasn’t there. I used: “yum groupinstall KDE”, it did the installation but with a warning “Group kde-desktop package not available”. Although it did install many kde features/icons, the option to change to kde (like login screen should now have kde/gnome option, or >KDE should invoke kde etc) did not work.
Then I tried “yum groupinstall “X Window System” “KDE” “. After using this it did install/update with no warning. When I reboot the VM it tried to boot (says centOS starting in 6,…0sec) and then goes black doing nothing…..I can’t get grub menu to try single user mode etc..
Any help would be greatly appreciated.