New to centOS 5 can someone help

[russellhearn69]

I have just installed centOS 5 and i thought i had selected KDE to install but i am only on command line interface and i really don't have a clue when i comes to that, i have always used "windows" (sorry if thats a bad word in this forum lol)
so i am used to being able to see what i am doing, can someone help me out here and tell me what i have to do to get KDE running but not change anything that i have done, sorry if this is a bit veague

[meton_magis]

from the command line, you can type
startx
to boot into the X gui.
if you edit your /etc/inittab file, there is a line in there that sets the default boot level to 3 (cli only, no gui.)
it looks like
id:3:initdefault:

change it to
id:5:initdefault:
this will by default boot the display gui.

It MAY not work immediately, depending on your install, but the errors that come out will help us determine what needs to be done.

[russellhearn69]

thank you, i managed to get it working after a reinstall of the OS so start from scratch again, i don't suppose you know what i need to be able to install invision powerboard onto my server?

apache
mysql
php

is that all?

[Rubberman]

As meton_magis said, try the command startx from the command line. If that works, then do what he said about changing the run level (initdefault) to 5 when your system boots. If that doesn't work (startx), then you need to install the X-Windows and KDE packages. If you need to do that, login as root and execute the following commands:

yum install 'xorg-x11*'
yum install 'kde*'

This is the "easy" way, though it will install a whole bunch of things you don't need (or want) like all the language bindings there are and all the development tools. If you get some dependency errors, then we'll have to help you do this manually. In reality, the easy way is to reinstall CentOS and make sure you select the graphic/workstation installation. It sounds like you did a "server" installation which only requires the command line.

[russellhearn69]

ok that sounds good i will give that a try now and let you know what happens in a bit, reinstalling now cause i it won't let me get into mysql, keeps telling me acces denied lol, why is nothing ever easy lol