Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux without Gnome?

[Shashank]

> and we were thinking we might simply install X libraries and
> firefox as these are the only (known) requirements for the applications to
> run.

On our production boxes, we do not install either Gnome or KDE. We do
have X windows, Xvfb, and twm for remote X acess. And things are
working just fine.


>
> However, exluding Gnome from the installation can get rather complicated due
> to the different dependencies all over the place.

I did not see any issues while installing my copy, but may be you need
something else that is dependent on Gnome? My installation also has
firefox installation. However, all the servers are now in run level
-3, and any firefox related stuff can be accessed remotely (with
Xmanager for example)

hth,
-s


> And if we find that we
> need to install additional packages later on it might be enough to pull inn
> the rest of Gnome to resolve dependencies. So in a nutshell, we're stuck
> with these options:
>
>   - Install Gnome. Patch the systems relatively often.
>   - Exclude Gnome. Possibly install (part of) Gnome later on.
>
> I guess if the systems were not RHEL based, but, say Debian, it would be
> much easier to exclude Gnome, as RHEL seems to be tightly integrated with
> Gnome.
>
> We'd very much like some feedback on this issue. Thanks.
>
>
> Regards,
> kenneho
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