Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux without Gnome?

[Pat Riehecky]

On my production systems I don't install X or Gnome.  However, due to
the magic of X11 forwarding (ssh -Y) I have a working firefox on a few
boxen.  These days yum has gotten close enough to emulating the debian
dependency resolution that the frustration of dependency chases is
nearly gone.  From the installation I unchecked X, Gnome and left
checked the Admin Tools.  That gave me about what I expect you are
looking for.

Pat

On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 16:52 +0200, Kenneth Holter wrote:
> Red Hat did use to come with KDE as default as far as I remeber too, but
> according to
> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/Deployment_Guide-en-US/s2-x-clients-desktop.html
> GNOME
> is now the default.
> 
> I agree that we need a window manager with X. I forgot to mention that in my
> first post. So the idea is to install a simple window manager (i.e twm)
> along with the required xlibs, as well as firefox.
> 
> Has anyone done this successfully? Is there any problems we should be aware
> of?
> 
> By the way, we're going to kickstart install the servers, so any tips on the
> package selection section of the kickstart file would be appreciated.
> 
> 
> 
> On 5/16/08, mark <m.roth2006 at rcn.com> wrote:
> >
> > Kenneth Holter wrote:
> > >
> > > We're about to install some RHEL 5.1 servers, and are discussing whether
> > to
> > > exclude Gnome or not. The applications that are to be hosted on the
> > servers
> > > are java-based, and we were thinking we might simply install X libraries
> > and
> > > firefox as these are the only (known) requirements for the applications
> > to
> > > run.
> > >smo[>
> > > 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.
> >
> > ?
> >
> > RH's has always done KDE as a default, as far as I remember. Also, you
> > *need* a
> > window manager with X. Trust me, you do not want to run X without one.
> >
> >        mark
> >
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