What Is In A Yum Group
I want to install Xfce on a ClearOS server. They have not defined any desktop groups (actually no groups other than minimal). But lots of Xfce rpms are in their repos.
How can I see what rpms CentOS would install with a ‘yum group install’?
Then I get to install VNC server and set up the client right…
thanks
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yum group info Xfce
Ah,
I had tried
yum groupinfo “Xfce Desktop”
And got the listing of groups, not packages.
thanks
to *really* see what its going to install…
yum groupinstall “Some Group”
then answer N (no) after it lists the packages it wants to install.
this will show you not only whats in the group, but also any prerequisites.
Not needed. I want to install Xfce desktop on a ClearOS system. They do not provide a group for any of the desktops. So all I need is a list of rpms that create the desktop and let yum do its job from there. Of course, I need to read the manpage to figure out how to provide the rpms from a file that I got from the group info output….
Can some one that has a CentOS7-x64 system please send me the output of:
yum group info Xfce
My CentOS7-armv7 does not have an Xfce group, only Gnome and KDE. And all else I have here are Fedora 25-x64 laptops. I want to see what CentOS7 considers to be in the Xcfe desktop.
thanks
Group: Xfce
Group-Id: xfce-desktop
Description: A lightweight desktop environment that works well on low end machines.
Mandatory Packages:
+Thunar
+xfce-utils
+xfce4-panel
+xfce4-session
+xfce4-settings
+xfconf
+xfdesktop
+xfwm4
Default Packages:
+NetworkManager-gnome
gdm
+leafpad
+openssh-askpass
+orage
+polkit-gnome
+thunar-archive-plugin
+thunar-volman
+tumbler
+xfce4-appfinder
+xfce4-icon-theme
+xfce4-mixer
+xfce4-power-manager
+xfce4-session-engines
+xfce4-terminal
+xfwm4-theme-nodoka
Optional Packages:
xfwm4-themes
Conditional Packages:
+pinentry-gtk
CentOS Linux release 7.3.1611 (Core)
Scott
Thanks. Much different output than I got from Fedora. What are all those + in front of each line?
the recommendation on how to feed a list into yum from:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/47304/CentOS-install-packages-listed-in-a-text-file
yum -y install $(cat filename cat | tr ‘\n’ ‘ ‘)
Will need a bit more editing of the list than just removing the first lines!
hmm. but that seems like an error with ‘cat filename cat’ ??
So when I run this list thru yum on the ClearOS7 I get a few packages that are not available. I will take that up with them. But interestingly:
Package xfce4-mixer is obsoleted by xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin, trying to install xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin-0.2.4-4.el7.x86_64 instead
So is this a problem with the Xfce group in CentOS7 in general?
I seem to be missing some important rpms, even when I enable the clearos-CentOS.repo which is suppose to include all of the CentOS rpms not customized by clearos.
How can I check out if CentOS7-x64 has these missing rpms:
No package xfce-utils available. No package NetworkManager-gnome available. No package leafpad available. No package xfce4-icon-theme available. Package xfce4-mixer is obsoleted by xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin, trying to install xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin-0.2.4-4.el7.x86_64 instead No package xfwm4-theme-nodoka available.
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I would rather enable Xfce than Gnome. I have totally switched to Xfce on all my Fedora platforms. By enabling the clearos-CentOS.repo I have the option of the Gnome group to install…
thanks
http://mirror.CentOS.org/CentOS/
https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/