Comments on: How to Install KDE in CentOS

By: PaulC

PaulC — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 13:25:00 +0000

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.

By: Johnutz

Johnutz — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:50:41 +0000

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

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:39:35 +0000

Is there a way to backup the downloaded KDE packages so they don’t have to be downloaded again in subsequent installations of Linux?

By: sivaraman

sivaraman — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 09:39:39 +0000

if i run startx command it will show fatal server error

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 14:43:07 +0000

Thanks Dean.

By: temp2010

temp2010 — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 22:25:24 +0000

Gracias, Dean Kamali, por el dato de CentOS 6

By: Dean Kamali

Dean Kamali — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 02:05:55 +0000

On CentOS 6 use
yum groupinstall “KDE Desktop”
It will be approximately a 240MB download