Install X after a minimal installation

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of jludwig
> Sent: 02 August 2004 17:26
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: Install X after a minimal installation
> 
> On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 11:31, robin-lists at robinbowes.com wrote:
> > Can anyone point me at a guide that will tell me which packages to 
> > install to get X working? Or some other trouble-shooting guide?
>
> It appears that maybe X is starting but you are being dropped 
> back into say tty1 because of no Xserver.
> 
> 1) Try alt+F7 after starting to see if there is any video at 
> all. (My system will display the video BIOS startup text) 

Nope, nothing.

> 
> 2) What Xserver are you using kde gdm ......

I had installed gdm.

> 3) Modify Xorg.conf for minimal video settings. (Bad settings 
> should have given an error)

Don't think that was the problem.
 
> Try; (I am not sure of these, but should force installation of
> dependencies)
>  yum -t -y install kdebase
>  yum -t -y install gnome-session

Well, what I did was to issue an rpm query command like this:

# rpm -qa --queryformat "%{INSTALLTIME},%{NAME%}\n" | sort -nr > rpmlist.txt

This gave me a list of installed rpms in the order I'd installed them.

I worked out where I'd started messing with the X stuff, and deleted
everything before that point from the file.

I then munged the list of packages into a big "rpm -e" command and deleted
everything!

Then I used "apt-get install gnome-session".

Hmmm. "startx" is not present now. Looks like I need to install something
else...

R.
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