Minimal packages to run X Window System (TWM)

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The package list here, was tested on CENTOS 5.5 x86_64 installed with @core. There are two methods to do this.

  • YUM method, if you already have a working yum repository available.
  • RPM method, if you do not have a yum repository.

YUM method

You can use the command yum groupinstall 'X Window System' to install simple X Window System, with TWM (Tom's Window Manager). This group is already compact enough. Thus there is no benefit in installing X Window System's components by hand.

There is already a yum repository configured in default system installation, by the name 'c5-media', which checks for media in any of the following: /media, /media/cdrom or /media/CentOS . Just mount your CentOS CD/DVD on /media/cdrom.

# mkdir /media/cdrom
# mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom/

The following will install about 115 MB of packages, and will give you a fully functional X Window System:

#  yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=c5-media  groupinstall 'X Window System'

System stats (before and after)

Our system:

[root@testkde ~]# uname -a
Linux testx 2.6.18-194.el5 #1 SMP Fri Apr 3 14:58:14 EDT 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Before: (only @core / no X)

[root@testx ~]# rpm -qa | wc -l
233

[root@testx ~]# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/vda3             2.8G  717M  2.0G  27% /
/dev/vda1              99M   12M   82M  13% /boot
tmpfs                 250M     0  250M   0% /dev/shm
[root@testx ~]#

After: (@core and X Window components)

[root@testx ~]# rpm -qa | wc -l
443

[root@testx ~]# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/vda3             2.8G  1.2G  1.6G  43% /
/dev/vda1              99M   12M   82M  13% /boot
tmpfs                 250M     0  250M   0% /dev/shm
[root@testx ~]# 
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