On 8/16/05, Frappy John <frappyjohn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 8/14/05, Stuart Sears <stuart@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > . . . > > this may seem like a silly question, but do you have a fully-fledged > > graphical environment running on this box already? > > running all the above queries on my box it looks like you are missing a > > number of essential packages, not least of which are > > fonts-xorg-base > > xfs > > xorg-x11 > > xorg-x11-libs > > > > basically it suggests that you don't have X installed. > > Stuart-- > > Not a silly question at all: The server has been sitting in a server > farm without a monitor, hence no X installed. > > I'm doing development on it and would like to use the kate text editor > via vncserver. > > I realized I'd need to install some X components, but thought the Red > Hat rpm system would be aware of that and install the necessary > dependencies. > > Thanks for your reply. I'll try installing the packages you mention > and repost with the results. > > Thanks again, > > John Hicks > Stuart-- I installed: xorg-x11 fonts-xorg-base (triggered by xorg-x11) I found that I already had these packages installed: xorg-x11-xfs xorg-x11-libs but xfs was not running ... so I started it: service xfs start and I was able to launch vncserver and connect to it just fine. I then found I needed to install kdebase to get my darling Kate text editor. I did, and I am now a happy camper! Thanks for your help! John Hicks -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
