Minimalist Installs (was Checkbox for "Install Everything")

Eric spamsink at scoot.netis.com
Mon May 21 04:30:20 UTC 2007


For the record... Starting off with some minimum default installation, and 
then adding stuff later, doesn't necessarily work all that well either.

I did an F7 Test 4 installation taking JUST the default packages that the 
installer presented to me, including Gnome but no KDE.

Now, whenever I do a new installation I always install both Gnome and KDE, 
but this time I resisted the temptation.

Then, after I got it all up and running, I logged on as root and tried "yum 
groupinstall "KDE (K Desktop Environment)"".  Result was:

Transaction Check Error:
file /usr/share/config/kdm conflicts between attempted installs of 
kde-settings-kdm-3.5-23.fc7 and kdebase-3.5.6-10.fc7

Tried using "Add / Remove Programs" to install KDE and got pretty much the 
same thing.

Amazingly enough I couldn't find anything about that in the bugzilla 
database, so I reported it as bug 240717.

Have any of you run across that, and what did you do about it?

Eric <trying VERY hard to resist the temptation to ask
         WHY these installations always default to Gnome
         and not KDE...>




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