On Sat, 4 Dec 2010 12:11:08 +0900 Abu Attar Musharih <abuattar.musharih@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 11:26 PM, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > Could be coincidental. But chances are that you ended up removing > > lots of other things that were needed for a graphical system. > > Exactly, that was the case. Gnome removed all files supporting > Evolution and some other packages. One thing I like the add/remove > menu because it gives dialogue box and I use it quite often. I used to > unintall the evolution from FC7 and found no problem with the X > server. Therefore, when the dialogue box listed files to be removed, I > did not care. I should have been aware when removing packages shown in > the gnome panel by default. > > > > > This does sound like you removed more than just Firefox and > > Evolution. Copying files from one box to another is just going to > > cause lots of problems. One of which is maintaining what's > > installed on your system. [snip] > I am thinking about this and will have a try. > Thanks for the response and I will be glad in the case you have > further comments. If you removed things that were needed for functionality, you could perhaps do a groupinstall to get them back. yum grouplist | less should show you a list of them. And I think for Gnome you would then do something like yum groupinstall "Gnome desktop" or yum groupinstall Gnome-desktop See man yum for the exact syntax. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
