yum install gnome?

[Wojtek]

How would one install gnome on a CentOs vps?

SuSE was easier, yast gdm, it installed all other dependancies and thats it.
CentOS seems less newb friendly heh.

[klittl01]

Are you planning on installing gnome on your VPS\dedicated server? That would not be a good idea. The interface is only good if you are using a moniter that is phyically connected to that machine. All it would do it take up space on your server. Even if you have a computer at your house, if you're using it for server purposes it would most likely just be a waste of resources. I would only setup gnome on a personal system.

Thats just my two cents....Good Luck

[Rick]

We have had several customers run an X server in the past, I have helped peopel get Gnome rocking just to see what its like. It works OK, but the latency between you and us is normally 60-120ms on average so using a desktop thru is going to be really frustrating. Unless you need to accomplish only a few graphical tools, I really dont see the purpose.

Tell us more on why you want to run gnome in the first place, there may be an alternative.

[Wojtek]

Thanks for your replies.

klittl01, I'm planning on using gnome's built in VNC server. So from my house I could see my rapidvps vps.

Rick, I don't have any specific tools I want to run from the GUI.
SSH is scary, black window waiting for me to type something in :)
My other windows vps has rdp, so perhaps I got used to some visual feedback.

I do have another SuSE vps like I said. My pings to both the SuSE vps and RapidVPS are very similar. Mid 40s. The vnc latency on the suse one does not bother me at all, it's quite workable.

[Wojtek]

So I'm trying right now as I'm writing this.

Went on the gnome website and read their stuff a little more.
Found this thing called GARNOME that supposedly installs gnome from the latest tarballs available.

That's exactly what I need, no?

So I downloaded the thing

cd /tmp
wget URL_TO/garnome-2.14.1.tar.gz
tar -zxvf garnome-2.14.1.tar.gz
cd garnome-2.14.1
cd desktop
make install

and it started to download, compile, and stuff
It's taking it's time tho. Been running almost half an hour and still not done.

I'm begining to wonder If I didnt do something wrong here.
Usually its configure,make,make install. and I've just make install straight.

But I remeber trying to 'make install' another program and it actually gave me an error saying config file not found or something. and I had to run configure first.


We'll see, hopefully everything is fine.

[Rick]

I would install gnome/X from the centos rpms. I think something like

yum groupinstall gnome

Compiling from sources would take a year and a day, maybe more.

[Wojtek]

thanks rick, but that command dosn't work

# yum groupinstall gnome
Setting up Group Process
Setting up repositories
No Repositories Available to Set Up
Error: No Groups on which to run command

I've googled groupinstall gnome and none of them works
yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment"
yum groupinstall "X Window System" "GNOME Desktop Environment"

even
yum grouplist
does not show a list of groups and gives the same error as above.
As if it didnt know where to look for the files or something?


[still compiling]

[Wojtek]

make: *** [install] Error 2

grr. wasted an hour
and cannot install with yum :(