.FLYINGHEAD LINUX LOVE
.TITLE What to do when GNOME goes away
.AUTHOR David Gewirtz
.SUMMARY A few simple steps will turn GNOME back on.
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I’ve been setting up a local CentOS box on my home network. It’ll eventually run some hack software I’ve been fiddling with, but for now, it’s just a matter of making it all work
So this was bizarre. Trying to make the old box run as lean as possible, I tried to turn off the printer services on my box using the package manager, since I had no intention of printing from that machine.
But after I did, I couldn’t get into GNOME. Instead, I was launched into a terrible, little GUI called TWM.
Fortunately, this is fixable with the following steps, done as root:
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# yum install switchdesk
# yum groupinstall “GNOME Desktop Environment”
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Make sure you put "GNOME Desktop Environment" in quotes and match the case. When I didn’t, yum errored out. Quotes and proper case, and it all worked within seconds.
Took a little churning, but the desktop came back good as new.
Also, if you need to get into the Package Manager, try system-config-packages. If that doesn’t work, try typing:
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# pirut
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Have fun and enjoy the Linux love!
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