On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 01:23:14PM +0000, Beartooth wrote:
I run Gnome; KDE has always grated on me for some reason -- but I do use Konqueror and K3B often. Do I have to install KDE in toto under F9 to get those two? Or is there a way to tell yum to get them and only what they have to have?
These programs require underlying libraries to run properly. Those libraries are stored in separate packages which must also be installed. The link between those two is "known" by the RPM database. That linkage, a dependency, must be solved by yum to install the programs you want and have them actually work.
So the best way to do this is:
$ su -c 'yum install kdebase k3b'
Anything that comes down the pipe, at that point, is required in fact to let you run konqueror and k3b.