Installing Fedora without Gnome using the DVD

[Michael C]

Hi,

I was wondering whether it's possible to select KDE to the exclusion of 
Gnome in Anaconda using the Install DVD.

This is what I'd intended to do when I installed F8 last month, but 
despite checking KDE and unchecking Gnome, it was installed regardless. 
I assumed at the time that I'd unwittingly selected Gnome development 
tools in the "Development" section, and Gnome had been erroneously 
dragged in as a dependency!

Best,

Michael

[ne...]

On Dec 30, 2007 1:59 PM, Michael C <sieverfrisch(a)yahoo.ie&gt; wrote:
>  Hi,
>
>  I was wondering whether it's possible to select KDE to the exclusion of
>  Gnome in Anaconda using the Install DVD. 
Not really. You will still be left with a
few gnome rpms. You need to choose
the option to customize the install, go thru each and every option and un-select
all the gnome rpms. Else, you could try doing a kickstart install

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[Michael C]

ne... wrote:
>  On Dec 30, 2007 1:59 PM, Michael C <sieverfrisch(a)yahoo.ie&gt;
> wrote:
>    
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was wondering whether it's possible to select KDE to the exclusion of
> > Gnome in Anaconda using the Install DVD.
> >     
>  Not really. You will still be left with a few gnome rpms. You need to choose
>  the option to customize the install, go thru each and every option and un-select
>  all the gnome rpms. Else, you could try doing a kickstart install
>
>  ne...
>     
Thanks. But having unwittingly installed Gnome, would I then be able to 
remove it with
yum groupremove "GNOME Desktop Environment"
?

Best wishes,

Michael

[Rahul Sundaram]

Michael C wrote:
>  Thanks. But having unwittingly installed Gnome, would I then be able
> to 
>  remove it with
>  yum groupremove "GNOME Desktop Environment"
>  ? 
Sure. That's always possible.

Rahul

[Rahul Sundaram]

Michael C wrote:
>  Hi,
>  
>  I was wondering whether it's possible to select KDE to the exclusion of 
>  Gnome in Anaconda using the Install DVD.
>  
>  This is what I'd intended to do when I installed F8 last month, but 
>  despite checking KDE and unchecking Gnome, it was installed regardless. 
>  I assumed at the time that I'd unwittingly selected Gnome development 
>  tools in the "Development" section, and Gnome had been erroneously 
>  dragged in as a dependency! 
You probably selected or skipped unselecting a package that was 
dependent on GNOME or GTK libraries. If you want KDE, I would strongly 
recommend you download the KDE spin instead.

http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora

KDE Live Media is installable to hard disk or USB flash disk too.

Rahul

[Felix Miata]

On 2007/12/30 19:11 (GMT+0530) Rahul Sundaram apparently typed:

>  KDE Live Media is installable to hard disk 
How can I do that without it converting my preformatted bs=1024 target / to a
space wasting bs=4096?
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[Michael C]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>  Michael C wrote:
> > Thanks. But having unwittingly installed Gnome, would I then be able 
> > to remove it with
> > yum groupremove "GNOME Desktop Environment"
> > ?
>
>  Sure. That's always possible.
>
>  Rahul
>  
I've had a look into this, and it seems that the command removes a fair
bit more than just Gnome ;)

Just as a matter of interest, if I were to install Fedora 8 using the
KDE Live Media CD, would there be any means of controlling the fonts and 
font sizes used by Gtk apps other than via
(i) the gtk-qt-engine, which currently causes havoc in OpenOffice by
making icons and menu entries disappear, or through
(ii) the Gnome Control Center, which is a component part of, erm, Gnome...?

[Rahul Sundaram]

Michael C wrote:
>  I've had a look into this, and it seems that the command removes
> a fair
>  bit more than just Gnome ;) 
It would remove anything dependent on GNOME/GNOME libraries which is 
probably quite a lot.

>  Just as a matter of interest, if I were to install Fedora 8 using
> the
>  KDE Live Media CD, would there be any means of controlling the fonts and 
>  font sizes used by Gtk apps other than via
>  (i) the gtk-qt-engine, which currently causes havoc in OpenOffice by
>  making icons and menu entries disappear, or through
>  (ii) the Gnome Control Center, which is a component part of, erm, Gnome...? 
There is ongoing discussion about exactly this at

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-December/msg01788....

If you have problems with the gtk-qt-engine you should file them in 
upstream bugzilla.

Rahul

[Rahul Sundaram]

Felix Miata wrote:
>  On 2007/12/30 19:11 (GMT+0530) Rahul Sundaram apparently typed:
>  
> > KDE Live Media is installable to hard disk
>  
>  How can I do that without it converting my preformatted bs=1024 target / to a
>  space wasting bs=4096? 
Not sure. Might be a good question for fedora-livecd list.

Rahul