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Minimalistic instalation with Xfce

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http://forums.fedoraforum.org – Hello, I would need your advice how to do a minimalistic instalation of Fedora with Xfce from CLI. I downloaded minimum install iso (about 200MB) and started to install. During the instalation I checked "minimal", thats all. Now I want to install Xorg and Xfce and GDM. But I want to install just necessary packages... without networkmanager and so on. For example for Xfce is it: yum group install xfce --setopt=group_package_types=mandatory But after yum group install "x window system" yum group install xfce --setopt=group_package_types=mandatory there i (HowTos)

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Submitted by nicelinux on 09/05/2012

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Hello,

I would need your advice how to do a minimalistic instalation of Fedora with Xfce from CLI.

I downloaded minimum install iso (about 200MB) and started to install. During the instalation I checked "minimal", thats all.

Now I want to install Xorg and Xfce and GDM. But I want to install just necessary packages... without networkmanager and so on.

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