On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 21:42 +0200, Thomas Janssen wrote: > 2009/6/24 Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com>: > > On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Thomas > > Janssen<thomasj at fedoraproject.org> wrote: > >> 2009/6/24 John5342 <john5342 at googlemail.com>: > >>> 2009/6/24 Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik at redhat.com> > >>>> > >>>> On Wednesday 24 June 2009 17:13:37 Charles J Smith III wrote: > >>>> > i've tried the command and here's the result. keep in mind that the kde > >>>> > desktop works if i login in as root, just not when i log in as user > >>>> > > >>>> > > >>>> > > >>>> > [root at III III] yum groupinstall kde > >>>> > >>>> It's not "kde" group but "KDE (K Desktop Environment)". > >>> > >>> Actually instead of using that long name you could also use the comps group > >>> identifier which is kde-desktop. The following would work just as well. > >>> > >>> yum groupinstall kde-desktop > >> > >> Well, you can do as well: yum install @kde-desktop > >> > >> I just gave him something he can find easily with yum grouplist. > > > > He can't, which is why I asked the question. "yum grouplist" does not > > list kde-desktop as a group name. > > You might confuse something. I wasn't answering your question here. I > was the one who answered the OP as first with the correct yum > groupinstall instruction. Then we got two shorter sentences to do the > same. None was wrong. > > So my statement "I just gave him something he can find easily with yum > grouplist." was correct. I did gave him that in my first post. > > But you got two other answers to your question. One from Diego and i > sent you one. The question was how to discover the alternate name starting from the yum manual page. The correct answer is that the -v option is documented in the man page (though the user would need some imagination to see that this is useful here, given that it describes the option in terms of groupids, which are not defined). Of course the real question is "why is the KDE environment group not simply called KDE?", but that's a horse of a different colour. poc
