FC-4 installation -
Bob Goodwin
bobgoodwin at att.net
Sat Jul 9 22:49:40 CEST 2005
Thanks for the information Matt. I never used yum "group" before, a
new one for me but it seems to work as you describe. However after
collecting more than half the rpm's it quits with error messages, tries
different mirrors, and stops. I assume some of the servers are busy
presently and I'll try again later. From all indications I expect it
will work.
I will keep a copy of this message with my "Linux notes."
Guess I need to go through the yum doc's and see what other commands are
there that I haven't used. I usually just ask it to "update" and that
may be why I had little success. I had examined the various
repositories manually and know that there's a lot of stuff there that
yumex and synaptic are not listing for me?
Thanks.
Bob Goodwin Zuni, Virginia [not related to Zuni, NM]
Matt Thompson wrote:
> Bob Goodwin wrote:
>
>> Can anyone tell me exactly what to download, where to find it, and
>> how to install xfce on my FC-4 system?
>
>
> For FC4, you'll need Fedora Extras. Luckily, it is enabled by default
> in FC4. To be sure, when you do a "yum check-update" or the like,
> Extras should be one of the repos it checks. If not (I think upgrades
> may not enable it?), copy the FC3 lines here:
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/UsingExtras
>
> into a file in /etc/yum.repos.d/ and they should work for FC4.
>
> Now what you need are the Xfce packages. I'm going to have you check
> some things, because I don't have access to my FC4 box, so what I tell
> you will be general.
>
> First, as root, run "yum grouplist". Now, if all goes well, at the
> bottom of "Available Groups" there should be XFCE and XFCE Development
> groups. If so, yay! Run "yum groupinstall XFCE" or whatever Xfce is
> listed as (it was all caps in FC3) and grab the Development if you
> wish as well with 'yum groupinstall "XFCE Software Development"'.
>
> Now, that said, you will still miss some packages that you may as well
> grab. If so, I'd grab a GUI like yumex (yum install yumex):
>
> http://linux.rasmil.dk/cms/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=1
>
> Then, the ones you are missing mainly start with xfce4- and are things
> like appfinder, etc., and also I'd grab gtk-xfce-engine. To see the
> ones not in the Xfce groups, look here and search for, say, "xf":
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/extras/4/i386/repodata/repoview/__nogroup__.group.html
>
>
> Hopefully this will work.
>
> Matt
>
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