On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 11:03:41 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 16:49:54 +0000 (UTC)
Beartooth <beartooth(a)comcast.net> wrote:
> I've been playing with Scientific Linux on an oldish machine,
> and now I want to try F16 with xfce -- *not* live, but installed, with
> the .iso on a DVD. I realize that requires me to install the gnome
> version and then add xfce. Do I just command "yum install xfce," or is
> there something more esoteric?
yum groupinstall xfce-desktop
You don't need to install gnome. Just deselect it when you do the
install.
Oh good. And can I then still use a few gnome apps I depend on,
comparably to running gnome but using Konqueror for man pages and K3B for
media? (iirc, I have to install a good bit of KDE to get those.)
> In the course of playing with SL, I've put spare copies of
> various data into it, and of course tweaked all sorts of things, many
> of them a tad bit tedious; I'd like to preserve them into the F16
> install.
You can save off your homedir and keep all those settings easily.
You mean like copying them to an external drive and then back?
Other things you will likely have to re-tweak.
<sigh> I've certainly done it plenty of times before ....
Thanks for the clues!
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