Changes between Version 2 and Version 3 of CentosConfig

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10/05/09 11:25:46 (2 months ago)
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added: GUI - GNOME and X-Window install notes

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    33The CentOS is primarily used in many of the atlab projects. Usually we need to perform some additional configuration or installation steps to setup our development environment. For example CentOS by default installs OpenJDK, whereas we may want to use Sun JDK in our projects. This page is intended to document such custom installation and configuration steps for CentOS.  
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     6== Installing GUI - Gnome and X-window ==  
     7 * The minimal kickstart install does not come with GUI desktop environment. Following is a command to install X Window System and Gnome Desktop Environment:   
     8{{{ 
     9yum groupinstall "X Window System" "GNOME Desktop Environment"  
     10}}} 
     11 
     12 * List of package groups 
     13{{{ 
     14yum grouplist 
     15}}} 
     16  
     17 * To get info on particular package group 
     18{{{  
     19yum groupinfo <pkg-grp-name> 
     20}}} 
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     22 * To change your run level to GUI with X windows system:  
     23{{{ 
     24init 5 
     25}}} 
     26For more info on system run levels refer to [http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Installation_Guide-en-US/s1-boot-init-shutdown-sysv.html CentOS doc site].  
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    628== Java- JDK 6 install ==