Installing GUI application (browser) on non GUI box?

[mohdyusuf]

I dont know how to search for this, as you can imagine from the title, im clueless.

Anyway, i have a command-prompt-only Fedora Core 9 box, and I am thinking of installing GUI browser, say Firefox?. I want to access this through Xming.

Does it mean:
1. I have to install full UI stuff, like Gnome/KDE first ?
- if yes, how can i make sure that the box doesnt boot to UI by default?
2. or i can get away with just some minor installs ?

Thanks.

[daark.child]

You don't need a DE like KDE or GNOME in order to run Firefox. Firefox will install fine in a bare minimum X environment as long as the required dependencies are installed. You could do a "yum install firefox" and it should fetch all the libraries it needs including essential X packages. For a box not to boot into a GUI, make sure the default runlevel in /etc/inittab is set to 3.

[mohdyusuf]

i just wanna drop some notes here for those who eventually will find this thread (maybe ).

'yum -y install firefox' works fine, but then you would have to install and configure X server. Try

'yum list xorg-x11*'

i was too lazy to go with that way, i ended up fixing what i wanted to do in the first place (remote access to some SSL enabled page on the server).