On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 12:18:56 +0800 (CST), Stephen Liu <satimis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> # df -h
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hdg2 5.6G 3.5G 1.9G 65% /
> /dev/hdg1 105M 7.6M 92M 8% /boot
> none 157M 0 157M 0% /dev/shm
> /dev/hdg5 3.2G 353M 2.7G 12% /home
> Drupal requests Apache, PHP and MySQL running . To
> free HD space for them I'm prepared to erase GNOME
> desktop which I only visit occasionally, most times
> using KDE.
It looks like you should have enough space for the install, though I'm
not sure how much space you'll need for the DB itself. Is this a
workstation running a Drupal instance or an actual server?
> 1) On/after erasing all GNOME packages will it cause
> breakage to other packages
It'll break things with dependencies, yes, so you'll want to make sure
that any packages that depend on GNOME are not important to you.
> 2) Can I retain gnomemeeting-1.0.2-2? Can it work
> without GNOME desktop?
Check the dependencies (rpm -q --info gnomemeeting) but I doubt it
will work. Again, is this a workstation or a server (or a bit of
both)?
> 3) What other packages can I strip to free more HD
> space
OpenOffice.org is large. You also might dig into the directories ("du
-sk /" and work down from there) to see where all your usage is. A new
HD also might be cheaper than all the time you're going to spend
working on this. :)
> 4) Which of following commands will be more
> appropriate on erasing GNOME packages
>
> # rpm -e gnome*
>
> OR
>
> # yum remove gnome*
> (yum is running on this box for update/install
> packages)
yum remove/erase will check dependencies for you. I'm not sure the
former command works? The shell would probably try to expand out the
wildcard and not all gnome-dependent packages start with the string
"gnome".
--
Kyle Maxwell
[krmaxwell@xxxxxxxxx]
