On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 5:51 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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 > I've been using Fedora off and on for the last few years and figured out via Google that the Fedora folks call the desktop stuff for the most part $gnome/kde/moblin desktop environment as the package group. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
