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Installing a Gnome package will add the required Gnome base and libs, not the DE.
Exactly what I thought... I was wondering when someone else suggested that. Selecting a Gnome app will only drag along the dependencies.. not the whole DE.
Well, that's what I have always done, before patterns were invented :-)
I'm sitting here thinking.. what did I do before patterns.. I've had machines with both DEs installed before... the way I think used to do it was to use YaST, and the RPM Groups view... drill down until I found the Gnome group and select the packages...
Yes, you can select, for example, Nautilus, and most of gnome will be installed.
Anyway, moot point now that there's packages
You mean "patterns", I suppose :-)
No one has yet answered the real questions here though... what is the kde4_pure package? Why does it conflict with Gnome if it has no contents? If it has no contents, why is it there?
It is, I think, a metapackage. A false package that brings, by dependencies, all of kde. A packager trick. And the "pure" probably means "no other desktop, I want kde purely and solely". Thus installing other desktop would break that idea, so it is uninstalled. No big deal, uninstall it. You say it contains nothing? Uninstall it. For an authoritative answer, ask devs, or in the packaging list, perhaps.
and.. why is there no One-Click for Gnome?
Where, in the wiki? Perhaps no one has thought of creating it.
There is no "new user" method of installing Gnome once they have KDE4 up and running.
Well, as what I install during a fresh install is Gnome, I can't duplicate your problem. In this machine I have both gnome and kde installed (oS 11.0), no problem. But I just fired the qt version of yast in 11.2 in another machine, selected the "patterns" tab, and right at the top of the left hand panel I see "Gnome desktop environment" and "gnome base system" (plus the equivalent for kde4, which in my case are not selected). Just select those two gnome patterns. Doesn't that work for you? - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAksaPhYACgkQtTMYHG2NR9U4dgCeM3O+IujJGGO/yATRTdGtYRal 1gMAoJAucXe7JyKsa0MCgjKGb/wcvtPh =TuJM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----