Switching to KDE (was kde or gnome)

Dave Feustel dfeustel at mindspring.com
Mon Sep 29 22:13:28 UTC 2008


On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 05:46:26PM -0400, Eric wrote:
> At 02:54 PM 9/29/2008, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>
> >>>>>
>> It doesn't make sense to recommend installing "KDE Software  
>> Development" to the
>> average user, it's only for developers. Average users should just install the
>> regular KDE group (known as kde-desktop internally):
>> yum groupinstall kde-desktop
> <<<<<
>
> Good afternoon, Kevin.
>
> Yeah, I figured there was something like that... but when you say  
> "switchdesk KDE" and there is no KDE, switchdesk tells you to  
> groupinstall "KDE Software Development".
>
> Is there anything in kde-desktop that's not in KDE Software Development?  
> In other words, after you have installed "KDE Software Development" is 
> there any advantage to then installing kde-desktop"?

What is the yum command for installing the KDE Software Development package?




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