In the past, I was given a SLES11 sp3 (not SLED), and it had a full desktop environment on it. I think this was done by installing the “gnome” package group, which gave me the gnome-desktop (2.28) RPM, among other things. However it was done, it worked great. I had a server machine with a desktop I could use.
So now I’m trying to build the same thing for SLES12 sp1 (again, not the desktop SLED edition), but can’t seem to do it.
There is no package group for “gnome”, but there is a “gnome-base”, but it does not include the desktop. There is a package called gnome-desktop, but it does not result in the rpm “gnome-desktop” being installed on the newly made machine. I’ve tried adding the lsb5-desktop, the xorg-x11-server packages, and the x11 package group, but even all of those together does not give me a desktop.
I think that I’m missing the rpm file(s) that I need because rpm -qa does not include gnome-desktop, but if you think I’ve got the right stuff installed, and just need to configure it, I’d be happy with a solution like that, as well.
So does anyone know how to add a desktop to a SLES12sp1 machine?
Thanks for any help.
SLES 12, when built from the media, can have an X server (with Gnome as
well) from the start. If you do not have that, because somebody is
building the box for you, perhaps just get the media and build it yourself
but choose to have a graphical interface from the start and it should give
you Gnome.
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Good luck.
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In the past, I was given a SLES11 sp3 (not SLED), and it had a full
desktop environment on it. I think this was done by installing the
“gnome” package group, which gave me the gnome-desktop (2.28) RPM, among
other things. However it was done, it worked great. I had a server
machine with a desktop I could use.
So now I’m trying to build the same thing for SLES12 sp1 (again, not the
desktop SLED edition), but can’t seem to do it.
There is no package group for “gnome”, but there is a “gnome-base”, but
it does not include the desktop. There is a package called
gnome-desktop, but it does not result in the rpm “gnome-desktop” being
installed on the newly made machine. I’ve tried adding the
lsb5-desktop, the xorg-x11-server packages, and the x11 package group,
but even all of those together does not give me a desktop.
I think that I’m missing the rpm file(s) that I need because rpm -qa
does not include gnome-desktop, but if you think I’ve got the right
stuff installed, and just need to configure it, I’d be happy with a
solution like that, as well.
So does anyone know how to add a desktop to a SLES12sp1 machine?
Thanks for any help.[/color]
It sounds like you need to install the GNOME Desktop Environment pattern
within YaST or via “zypper install -t pattern gnome-basic”.
HTH.
Simon
SUSE Knowledge Partner
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It sounds like you need to install the GNOME Desktop Environment pattern
within YaST or via “zypper install -t pattern gnome-basic”.
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Thanks for the suggestion, but I’m already doing that. Above I said “gnome-base” but I just double checked and I’m adding “gnome-basic” as you suggest, but I’m not getting the gnome-desktop RPM.