I just want to install a minimal GNOME desktop without all the Thunderbird/Firefox and any other packages that may come with full CentOS Live Cd. Is there something like yum groupinstall base-desktop
? Ideally, I just want Xorg/GNOME and then add any other packages manually. No gdm
also, I just want to run startx
.
Centos – install minimal desktop on CentOS 6.3
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Best Answer
There's the
basic-desktop
group which is described asIt includes the following packages:
It includes gdm which is arguably part of a basic desktop but does not include Firefox, Thunderbird, etc. If you still want less, you'll want to pick the packages out of the above list you want and do a yum install on the specific ones you for your desired desktop.