how to reinstall Gnome desktop via yum

Scott van Looy scott at ethosuk.org.uk
Tue Apr 10 13:42:59 UTC 2007


Today Aaron Konstam did spake thusly:

> On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 18:25 -0300, Sebastian Gurovich wrote:
>> And if you have rpm and apt-get working and not YUM?
>> Do you sink or can you also install "gnome desktop environment"?
>> - Seb
> I don't know but why can't you use yum. I odn't understand why people
> are committed to apt-get in the Fedora world. While I am at it I don't
> think smart is so smart.

Apt's biggest advantage is the ability to do user interactive post install 
stuff. So you get a gui that runs for each thing that you install asking 
you how you'd like it set up - it's about the only good thing Debian/etc 
has over Fedora

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