I’m new to SUSE, but am required to do some QA on SLES 11SP2 running in EC2. I need to setup X Windows & GNOME or other desktop and cannot find the equivalent simple install steps available for other Linuxes running in EC2, e.g.:
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[]RHEL/CentOS> yum -y groupinstall “X Window System” “Desktop”
[]Ubuntu> apt-get -y install ubuntu-desktop
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Can someone please clue me in on what are the steps with SLES 11SP2 ?
thanks, David
dgrigglestone wrote:
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I’m new to SUSE, but am required to do some QA on SLES 11SP2 running
in EC2. I need to setup X Windows & GNOME or other desktop and cannot
find the equivalent simple install steps available for other Linuxes
running in EC2, e.g.:[/color]
SLES uses YaST.
Check the man pages. You want the “install” option:
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man yast
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-i, --install [ [ … ] ]
Install an RPM package. The package can be a single short package
name (e.g. gvim) which will be installed with dependency checking,
or the full path to an rpm package (e.g /tmp/gvim.rpm) which will be
installed without dependency checking.[/color]
The full SLES documentation is here:
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Sorry if you misunderstood me … I understand that yast and zypper are available … my question is what’s the list of packages or package groups that needs to be specified in order to add X Windows and a GNOME desktop.
dgrigglestone wrote:
Yes, I did misunderstand and I missed your reply.
I don’t know what packages you need and see no one else has replied. If
you still need an answer, I would ask again in a more appropriate forum
where you are likely to find someone to help you.
https://forums.suse.com/forumdisplay.php?16-SLES-Configure-Administer
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You can start yast2, go to software management and search for xorg. Then you’ll see the required packages for a XWindow system and VNC server. Hope this helps.