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r1amu

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Registered: 2020-02-24

Posts: 16

What are the essential packages to run Gnome?

I want to give Gnome a shot, but installing 66 packages seems bit to much (I know that there are few apps that aren't needed but that still leaves a lot of packages to install), what are the essential packages that are needed for Gnome desktop?

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 19,031

Re: What are the essential packages to run Gnome?

What command did you try that would result in installing 66 packages?

r1amu

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Registered: 2020-02-24

Posts: 16

Re: What are the essential packages to run Gnome?

sudo pacman -S gnome

Which returns with:

:: There are 66 members in group gnome:

But there is some stuff that can definetly be excluded like gedit, I'm just not sure how much stuff I can exclude

eschwartz

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Registered: 2014-08-08

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Re: What are the essential packages to run Gnome?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME#Installation

You just need to install the "gnome-shell" package, the "gnome" group includes gnome-shell plus "a subset of well-integrated applications".

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r1amu

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Registered: 2020-02-24

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Re: What are the essential packages to run Gnome?

Thanks eschwartz, I did read that, only if I read it second time