Installing additional Linux desktop environment

@scottalanmiller said in Installing additional Linux desktop environment:

Yes the at sign signifies a group of packages rather than a single one.

So what would happen if you didn't use @ ? Would only part of the package be installed and the environment unusable?

You'd fail as there is no package by the name that you are specifying.

stacksofplates

@BBigford said in Installing additional Linux desktop environment:

@stacksofplates said in Installing additional Linux desktop environment:

And for reference, RHEL uses yum groupinstall, or dnf groupinstall.

Can you do either @ or groupinstall or is groupinstall the only thing supported? Not at my computer for some time to try.

I know you can use @ in a kickstart file but I've never tried just normally installing things.

coliver

@BBigford said in Installing additional Linux desktop environment:

@stacksofplates said in Installing additional Linux desktop environment:

And for reference, RHEL uses yum groupinstall, or dnf groupinstall.

Can you do either @ or groupinstall or is groupinstall the only thing supported? Not at my computer for some time to try.

I think you can use either but the standard method is using groupinstall.

bbigford

@scottalanmiller said in Installing additional Linux desktop environment:

@BBigford said in Installing additional Linux desktop environment:

@scottalanmiller said in Installing additional Linux desktop environment:

Yes the at sign signifies a group of packages rather than a single one.

So what would happen if you didn't use @ ? Would only part of the package be installed and the environment unusable?

You'd fail as there is no package by the name that you are specifying.

It hadn't failed for me though, it only listed about 12 things at around 35MB. When I added the @, it jumped up to about 180MB. I didn't run it though as I think I had in the past and it didn't include everything needed.