Fedora 24 - Replacing Gnome?
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@stacksofplates said in Fedora 24 - Replacing Gnome?:
@BBigford said in Fedora 24 - Replacing Gnome?:
So I went to check out KDE and I couldn't find a match when trying sudo dnf install kde-desktop-environment... I had to do @kde-desktop-environment... Why the need for @ in regards to that package?
It's a group of packages. Like yum group install
So like installing all of the dependencies? Where it's not just one package, it's a grouping of packages...
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Also checked out Korora as Scott suggested... Nice. Looking at Zorin right now... also nice. Solus is something that is very odd... still haven't figured out much online. Threads say eopkg is the package manager, but you have to use sudo pisi, not sudo eopkg... haven't spent much time on that one yet. Cause GitHub suggests that pisi is the discontinued package manager... but I have Solus updated to the latest version.
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=solus
" Solus is a Linux distribution built from scratch. It uses a forked version of the PiSi package manager, maintained as "eopkg" "
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@BBigford said in Fedora 24 - Replacing Gnome?:
@stacksofplates said in Fedora 24 - Replacing Gnome?:
@BBigford said in Fedora 24 - Replacing Gnome?:
So I went to check out KDE and I couldn't find a match when trying sudo dnf install kde-desktop-environment... I had to do @kde-desktop-environment... Why the need for @ in regards to that package?
It's a group of packages. Like yum group install
So like installing all of the dependencies? Where it's not just one package, it's a grouping of packages...
Ya. Kickstart config have the same syntax. If you ever look at the package list you'll see single packages and a group with @ in front.
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@stacksofplates said in Fedora 24 - Replacing Gnome?:
@BBigford said in Fedora 24 - Replacing Gnome?:
@stacksofplates said in Fedora 24 - Replacing Gnome?:
@BBigford said in Fedora 24 - Replacing Gnome?:
So I went to check out KDE and I couldn't find a match when trying sudo dnf install kde-desktop-environment... I had to do @kde-desktop-environment... Why the need for @ in regards to that package?
It's a group of packages. Like yum group install
So like installing all of the dependencies? Where it's not just one package, it's a grouping of packages...
Ya. Kickstart config have the same syntax. If you ever look at the package list you'll see single packages and a group with @ in front.
Looking at the package list, do you mean it shows something like this (did a dnf list installed)?
If that's the case, how come around the Cinnamon section, there's no @cinnamon-desktop-environment ?
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Well to see the groups you would run
dnf group list. I'm not sure if that's exactly what that is showing you.For example in a minimal kickstart all you will normally see is
%packages @core %endI think it's just how they package everything, so you don't have single package dependencies. I could be wrong though, I never looked into it.
