CentOS 7 Adding KDE As Extra Option
Folks
While trying to add a second desktop to my CentOS7 installation (I
had GNOME3, wanted to add KDE as an alternate), the install failed:
Trying the –skip-broken option gave a large set of protected multilib version errors, so it didn’t work either. The following is the repo list:
I use priorities, as follows:
1: base
2: CentOSplus
3: updates
4: extras
5: cr
6: contrib
7: epel
Can anyone explain this? or let me know how to get around it? Rebuilding the server from scratch is definitely possible since this is a test environment only.
Thanks
David
3 thoughts on - CentOS 7 Adding KDE As Extra Option
10/09/2015 21:56, david wrote:
you need the same priority for updates as base, since packages in updates update packages in… base ;-)
change updates prio to 1 and you should be good.
10/09/2015 23:52, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote:
BTW cr should also have prio 1 (same as base and updates) since when it exists it also updates packages in base+updates.
At 02:55 PM 9/10/2015, you wrote:
YIKES — to think I’ve had that mistake for years since WhiteBox Linux and never knewshu. Lots of other updates happened, and then a reboot to use a new Kernel, and finally KDE installed without a hitch.
Yum/Priorities/Repos maintainer: Maybe there should be a suggestion, or “default” setting of priorities that at least does what the above suggests, or comments to that effect in the repo files so others won’t make the same mistake I did.
Thanks a lot
David