On 01/07/2014 08:27 PM, Warren Young wrote:
> I installed the RHEL 7 beta here to test while waiting for CentOS 7 to
> arrive. On noticing that yum didn't work, I decided to set up a local
> mirror. I rsync'd
>
> ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/rhel/beta/7/x86_64/os/Packages/
>
> to a local web server here, then regenerated the repodata directory with
> createrepo.
>
> Now yum works fine, for the most part. "yum search foo" pulls up a
> plausible list of packages, "yum install bar" chases dependencies as
> expected, etc.
>
> Unfortunately, "yum groupinstall" isn't working, which means I have no
> easy way to install Gnome on my minimal EL7 installation. Apparently I
> need some kind of "groups file" to feed to createrepo --groupfile, but I
> don't know where to get one, or how to construct one. I've dug around
> on ftp.redhat.com and can't find anything that looks plausible.
>
> I've tried manually installing packages to build up this GNOME desktop,
> but despite installing dozens of things, startx still doesn't give me
> something usable.
>
> I know I could get a GNOME desktop by reinstalling the OS, but that
> would wipe out a lot of the local work I've done on this VM so far.
>
> The only reason I need X in the first place is that
> system-config-printer no longer runs in text mode.
>
> (I'm trying to set up a CUPS server. So yeah, X11 is a prerequisite for
> installing a printer now. Lovely.)
How about using http://localhost:631 with lynx or some other such text
based browser.
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