In my continuing investigation of CentOS-7 I did yet another minimal install. Subsequent to that I ran yum update kernel, and then yum group install KDE. Now, KDE installed about 480Mb of stuff, which compares favourably to Gnome's 971Mb. However, when I run startx from the command line, instead of getting a desktop I see these errors instead: xauth: file /root/.serverauth.12462 does not exist xinit: unable to run server "/usr/bin/X": No such file or directory Followed by instructions on how to link "/usr/bin/X" to ones choice of display server. This seems a little awkward for a mature distro. Is it really the case that one must hand link files to get any other desktop instead of gnome? is this by design? -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB at Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3
James B. Byrne wrote:> In my continuing investigation of CentOS-7 I did yet another minimal > install. Subsequent to that I ran yum update kernel, and then yum group > install KDE. > > Now, KDE installed about 480Mb of stuff, which compares favourably to > Gnome's > 971Mb. However, when I run startx from the command line, instead of > getting a desktop I see these errors instead: > > xauth: file /root/.serverauth.12462 does not exist > > xinit: unable to run server "/usr/bin/X": No such file or directory > > Followed by instructions on how to link "/usr/bin/X" to ones choice of > display > server. This seems a little awkward for a mature distro. Is it really > the case that one must hand link files to get any other desktop instead of > gnome? is this by design?Yes, it pretty much assumes you have a working X server, you probably ought to install at least the 'base-x' group too. -- Rex