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Installing Gnome afterwards... [solved]


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Hi Folks,

 

I am now a happy Mandriva LE2005 user, everything works fine (apart from some radio stations that don't open in real player... but this is not the topic here...).

 

When I installed Mandriva, I only chose to install KDE... Now I wish to have Gnome as well...

 

-Is there a way to install Gnome afterwards, now that I have the system up and running, already well tweaked, I would hate to format te partition and start a fresh install ???

 

Thanks in advance for your advices and help !

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"urpmi gnome" in a root console will install most of it, and you can install later whatever missing.

With some conservatism with kernel updates and major system upgrades you will probably never have to install your Mandriva from scratch.

Great !!! I just tried, and it asks for more details. It gives me a whole lists of gnome-related stuff...

Which one is it ? Maybe gnome-desktop ???

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> When I installed Mandriva, I only chose to install KDE... Now I wish to have Gnome as well...

 

FWIW whenever I installed Mandrake/Mandriva I always install both KDE and Gnome. Apps work in both but I have run accross a couple apps that will not install (RPM) unless their native desktop is up and active first. K3b was not a happy camper installing on a Gnome only platform. Once installed it worked just fine on both Gnome and KDE.

 

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