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https://www.centos.org – I just want to install a minimal gnome desktop without all the thunderbird/firefox and any other packages that may come with full centos live cd. Is there something like yum groupinstall base-deskt... [by binary_drummer] (HowTos)

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Submitted by sine on 01/20/2013

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I just want to install a minimal gnome desktop without all the thunderbird/firefox and any other packages that may come with full centos live cd. Is there something like yum groupinstall base-desktop? Ideally, I just want xorg-gnome and then add any other packages manually. No gdm also, I just want to run startx.

Following this question I have have installed a minimal Ubuntu system on my computer.

I want to install the minimum packages possible the cleanest xfce desktop possible.

What are the minimal packages possible necessary to run a working minimal xubuntu desktop and how do I install them?

Do I need a login manager to run the desktop when I am done installing?

Gnome drop down menu missing 28 weeks 17 hours ago

Hi,i have machine where i have installed centos 6 minimal, but now i need to install the gnome desktop environment. i used the command yum groupinstall "Desktop" &... [by lirees]

I did a minimal install of CentOS 6.3 and now want to add a GUI. I tried using yum to install a GUI, but it says it can't resolve mirror.centos.org. I tried to install networking packages but I get directory not found for /etc.

How can I get a GUI?

I tried to install GNOME to minimal version of centos 6.3In the beginning i used kde. Then i uninstalled them. I installed all the required group for gnome.The problem is

I use CentOS as a host for VMWare virtual machines. I like the CentOS install to be as minimal as possible. However, if I try to remove stuff I don't want at the install stage, the install inv... [by nikkilocke]

I have installed CentOS 6 in Virtualbox. Although I have chosen to install General Purpose GNOME Desktop, the GNOME desktop does not start. All I get is a black and white text prompt. I would like to know how I can install GNOME Desktop from the CentOS DVD.

How do I mount the DVD image? How do I install GNOME desktop from command line?

CentOS 6.1 minimal 1 year 21 weeks ago

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Hi everyone.

Yesterday I tried to install Fedora 12 on my PS3 with the Fedora12 PPC dvd.

The problem is that the installation process never asked me which package I want install. It just installed the minimal system. After the installation, I just can use my Fedora with command line.