On Fri, 4 Dec 2009 11:08:16 -0800 drew wymore <[email protected]> dijo:
>On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 10:32 AM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Fri, 4 Dec 2009 09:58:39 -0800 >> John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> dijo: >> >However, neither gives me a "reinstall" option. I can uninstall, and I can >> >install. Uninstalling Gnome wants to uninstall a very long and scary list >> >of other packages, including things like gdm. I don't want to end up unable >> >to log in. Maybe it would be safer to do this from Xfce. (Having been >> >through this four times before, one of the first things I did was install >> >Xfce and take it for a spin to make sure I had a desktop I could log in to.) >> > >> >I am not very familiar with yum at the command line yet. Perhaps that >> would be a better way to "reinstall." >yum -y groupinstall "gnome desktop environment" Thanks. I had used the groupinstall command before, but had forgotten it. 1) Reinstalling Gnome made no difference. I still have no window manager after logging in to Gnome. 2) I read the man page on yum, but didn't figure out how to know the name of the groupinstall package. How did you know the package would be "gnome desktop environment"? I made a launch menu item for metacity to make it easier to start it after logging in. I didn't make one for gnome-panel because without the panel I wouldn't be able to access the launch menu. Luckily this time the panel did not die. I'm off to see if I can find a bugtracker page for Virtualbox OSE. Also for Gnome. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
