Dependency Hell : KDE does not depend on X Windows

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Thu Jul 5 08:29:20 UTC 2007


Hikaru Amano wrote:

> On 7/5/07, Javier Perez <pepebuho at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hmmm
>>
>> I did a groupremove of the X Windows System.
>> It erased X and KDE as expected. Figuring out that in order to have KDE I
>> need to have X, I did a groupinstall of KDE. Kdebase and all its gang was
>> installed, but X was left out!!!????
>>
>> When I did 'startx', the systems could not because X was missing.
>>
>> I would have thought that kdebase needed xorg-server-x11 at the very
>> least to launch kde.
>> How come they are not linked together?
>>
> 
> perhaps because X applications can run through X forwarding  and not
> only local X server
> 
> I have a  computer without X which I uses SSH X11 forwarding when I
> need some GUI to configure some stuff easily ..

Right, otherwise, just
$ yum groupinstall base-x
to get the core/local X server-n-friends to re-install.

-- Rex





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