Installing Gnome on 2009 [solved]

[Chris H]

2009 KDE4

 

Is there a recognised way of installing the gnome desktop onto an existing 2009 KDE4 system?

 

Maybe a metapackage in urpmi?

 

Ta.

[SilverSurfer60]

If you want to keep your kde set up you can install task-gnome which should install the components required. Log out of the current session and select gnome at the log in screen.

Likewise if you want to rid your system of kde4, once logged into gnome you can uninstall task-kde which will remove any kde packages that are not required . Then kde will no longer be available at the log in screen.

[ianw1974]

You can do:

 

urpmi task-gnome-minimal

 

also. This is all I have installed, and then I just get whatever other packages I need after this. This will give you a minimal gnome desktop, maybe without a ton of functionality that you might not even use. Beagle for instance and bluetooth stuff, gnome-games, etc. These are the only extra packages I seem to get if I tried it now:

 

[root@esprit ian]# urpmi task-gnome
In order to satisfy the 'bluez-pin' dependency, one of the following packages is needed:
1- kdebluetooth4-0.2-1mdv2009.0.x86_64: Access and control bluetooth devices in KDE4 (to install)
2- bluez-gnome-0.28-1mdv2009.0.x86_64: Bluetooth pairing and control applet (to install)
3- kdebluetooth-1.0-0.beta8.8mdv2009.0.x86_64: Access and control bluetooth devices in KDE (to install)
What is your choice? (1-3) 2
To satisfy dependencies, the following packages are going to be installed:
  Package						Version	  Release	   Arch   
(medium "Main")
 beagle						 0.3.8		12mdv2009.0   x86_64  
 beagle-evolution			   0.3.8		12mdv2009.0   x86_64  
 beagle-gui					 0.3.8		12mdv2009.0   x86_64  
 beagle-libs					0.3.8		12mdv2009.0   x86_64  
 bluez-gnome					0.28		 1mdv2009.0	x86_64  (suggested)
 bluez-utils					3.36		 5mdv2009.0	x86_64  (suggested)
 deskbar-applet				 2.24.0	   1mdv2009.0	x86_64  
 evolution-webcal			   2.24.0	   1mdv2009.0	x86_64  
 ggz-client-libs				0.0.14.1	 3mdv2009.0	x86_64  
 gnome-games					2.24.0	   1mdv2009.0	x86_64  
 gnome-panel-sharp			  2.24.0	   1mdv2009.0	x86_64  
 gnome-pilot					2.0.16	   2mdv2009.0	x86_64  
 gnome-python-gnomeprint		2.24.0	   1mdv2009.0	x86_64  
 guile						  1.8.5		1mdv2009.0	x86_64  
 lib64SDL_mixer1.2_0			1.2.8		8mdv2009.0	x86_64  
 lib64avahi-ui1				 0.6.23	   1mdv2009.0	x86_64  
 lib64ggz2					  0.0.14.1	 4mdv2009.0	x86_64  
 lib64ggzcore9				  0.0.14.1	 3mdv2009.0	x86_64  
 lib64ggzdmod6				  0.0.14.1	 5mdv2009.0	x86_64  
 lib64ggzmod4				   0.0.14.1	 3mdv2009.0	x86_64  
 lib64gtkglext-1.0_0			1.2.0		4mdv2009.0	x86_64  
 lib64guile17				   1.8.5		1mdv2009.0	x86_64  
 lib64mesaglut3				 7.0.4		1mdv2009.0	x86_64  
 lib64openobex1				 1.3		  7mdv2009.0	x86_64  (suggested)
 lib64smpeg0.4				  0.4.4		38mdv2009.0   x86_64  
 mono-addins					0.3.1		2mdv2009.0	noarch  
 mousetweaks					2.24.0	   1mdv2009.0	x86_64  (suggested)
 obex-data-server			   0.3.2		1mdv2009.0	x86_64  (suggested)
 python-beagle				  0.3.5.1	  2mdv2009.0	x86_64  (suggested)
 python-gtkglext				1.1.0		5mdv2009.0	x86_64  
 python-opengl				  2.0.1.09	 7mdv2008.1	x86_64  
 taglib-sharp				   2.0.3.0	  2mdv2009.0	noarch  
 tomboy						 0.12.0	   1mdv2009.0	x86_64  
 vinagre						2.24.0	   1mdv2009.0	x86_64  
 vino						   2.24.0	   1mdv2009.0	x86_64  
(medium "Main32")
 task-gnome					 2009.0	   4mdv2009.0	noarch  
(medium "Contrib")
 nautilus-sendto				1.0.1		1mdv2009.0	x86_64  (suggested)
 nautilus-sendto-bluetooth	  1.0.1		1mdv2009.0	x86_64  (suggested)
 nautilus-sendto-evolution	  1.0.1		1mdv2009.0	x86_64  (suggested)
(medium "Non-free")
 bluez-firmware				 1.2		  4mdv2009.0	x86_64  (suggested)
84MB of additional disk space will be used.
27MB of packages will be retrieved.
Proceed with the installation of the 40 packages? (Y/n) ^C

 

Maybe because I installed other stuff manually as and when I needed it.

[Chris H]

Thanks all.

 

task-gnome sounds good

 

task-gnome-minimal sounds better

 

Ta.