environment group 'KDE Plasma Workspaces'

Richard Ryniker ryniker at alum.mit.edu
Thu Sep 12 20:56:08 UTC 2013


I believe the KDE environment is installed on my up-to-date F20 machine,
but "yum group list" does not show it is installed.  Suspecting it might
not be *completely* installed, I tried to install it and yum complained:

  Warning: environment KDE Plasma Workspaces does not exist.

Is this merely personal confusion, or is something truly wrong?  If an
environment group is installed, should it be listed as "Installed"?  The
'GNOME Desktop' was installed as the default environment, but is not
listed as "Installed".

Because I think KDE Plasma Workspaces is installed, I expected some
output from yum to tell me there are no packages to install.  I do see
this expected output from an explicit request to install 'GNOME desktop'.


Details...

[root at lenovo ryniker]# uname -a
Linux lenovo 3.11.0-300.fc20.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Sep 5 18:52:54 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[root at lenovo ryniker]# yum group list
Loaded plugins: langpacks, refresh-packagekit
Available environment groups:
   GNOME Desktop
   KDE Plasma Workspaces
   Xfce Desktop
   LXDE Desktop
   Cinnamon Desktop
   MATE Desktop
   Sugar Desktop Environment
   Development and Creative Workstation
   Web Server
   Infrastructure Server
   Basic Desktop
   Minimal Install
Installed groups:
   Administration Tools
Available Groups:
   3D Printing
   Authoring and Publishing
   Books and Guides
   C Development Tools and Libraries
   Cloud Infrastructure
   Design Suite
   Development Tools
   Editors
   Educational Software
   Electronic Lab
   Engineering and Scientific
   Fedora Eclipse
   FreeIPA Server
   Games and Entertainment
   LibreOffice
   Medical Applications
   Milkymist
   Network Servers
   Office/Productivity
   RPM Development Tools
   Robotics
   Security Lab
   Sound and Video
   System Tools
   Text-based Internet
   Window Managers
Done
[root at lenovo ryniker]# yum  list updates
Loaded plugins: langpacks, refresh-packagekit
[root at lenovo ryniker]# yum group install 'KDE Plasma Workspaces'
Loaded plugins: langpacks, refresh-packagekit
Warning: environment KDE Plasma Workspaces does not exist.
No packages in any requested group available to install or update
[root at lenovo ryniker]# yum  install '@^KDE Plasma Workspaces'
Loaded plugins: langpacks, refresh-packagekit
Warning: Environment Group KDE Plasma Workspaces does not exist.
Nothing to do
[root at lenovo ryniker]# yum group install 'GNOME Desktop'
Loaded plugins: langpacks, refresh-packagekit
Warning: Group gnome-desktop does not have any packages to install.
Warning: Group firefox does not have any packages to install.
No packages in any requested group available to install or update
[root at lenovo ryniker]# 



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