By brett
I am relatively new to this so bear with me. I am trying to install Xfce, but the package doesnt seem to exist in the standard repository.
I have tried adding 3rd party repositories with zero success. I have tried about every possible yum command I can find including the group install. e.g.
yum install xfce
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
- base: mirror.symnds.com
- extras: mirror.dattobackup.com
- updates: mirror.net.cen.ct.gov Setting up Install Process No package xfce available. Error: Nothing to do
How do you add repositories to these VPS ? My next task is once xfce is installed to get to the desktop via VNC viewer, installing VNC server seems to work, just cant get the desktop. Gnome is available, but not wanted, looking for something lightweight.
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Xfce is available in the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository:
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<br>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
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<br>You can install the package that contains the repository information with:
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<br> wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
<br> rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
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<br>You should then be able to install Xfce with:
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<br> yum groupinstall Xfce
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<br>Xfce can be launched with the startxfce4 command.
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yum install wget <br>wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm <br>rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm <br>yum -y groupinstall Xfce <br>yum -y install xorg-x11-fonts-Type1 xorg-x11-fonts-misc <br> <br>This worked, thanks, although now I need to get tigervnc working so I can actually see the desktop. I tried via DO/droplets/access and I get the main desktop screen then it locks up. TightVNC viewer will not connect. <br> <br>ufw? iptables?
@brett <br> <br>If you’re connecting via an SSH tunnel, then the firewall shouldn’t be a problem since you can obviously connect to the droplet via SSH already. There’s an article describing how to get this set up on Ubuntu: <br> <br>https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-setup-vnc-for-ubuntu-12 <br> <br>The main difference is the package installation. The instructions for the TightVNC part should be the same. Let us know if you’re still having issues.
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