[WBEL-users] Install without X

[Bill Davidsen]

Ewan Mac Mahon wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm trying to install a system without X and I'm not having much success;
> using the 'minimal' option in the installer yields a system with a full
> copy of X as well as bits of KDE. The problem seems to be a run of
> dependencies starting from redhat-lsb.
> 
> So, two questions:
> - Has anyone installed WBEL without getting a load of XFree86 packages?
> - Is this a WBEL problem or a RHEL one?

No. It is a dependency problem. Some of the RH config tools require X. 
I'm surprised that the minimal install is still so large, I guess you 
would need to go to a full custom install and trim ruthlessly. Admin on 
such a system may be very painful and time-consuming...

When you select customize packages you used to get a choice of (a) add 
what I need for what I selected or (b) drop what I selected with 
unsatisfied dependencies. Haven't done that minimal an install in quite 
a while, so I can't really tell you if that's still there, because if it 
is I just selected "more" without hesitation, even my minimal systems 
are not that tiny these days.

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
   CTO TMR Associates, Inc
   Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979