On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 06:05:20PM -0000, Pierre wrote:
> Hi! 

> 
> I am trying to install x-windows on a machine that run on centos 5
> 
> I did a group install of gnome with this command:
> 
> yum -y groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment"
> 
> What am I doing wrong..
> 
> X is supposed to install itself with the gnome group..??

Probably not.  RH is weird with dependencies. 


You can find out with 

yum provides */X

And you'll find that the X package is provided by xorg-x11-server-Xorg


So,

yum -y install xorg-x11-server-Xorg and you will have X.


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