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42 Chapter 3. Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES
3.21. Package Group Selection
After your partitions have been selected and configured for formatting, you are ready to select pack-
ages for installation.
Note
Unless you choose a custom installation, the installation program will automatically choose most
packages for you. However, you must select either GNOME or KDE (or both) to install a graphical
environment.
GNOME and KDE are both graphical desktop environments
3
that handle the overall look and feel of
your system. You must choose one of these to have a default graphical setup, but you can also install
both to determine for yourself which you prefer.
You can select components, which group packages together according to function (for example,
GNOME
,
KDE
, or
Software Development
), individual packages, or a combination of the two.
To select a component, click on the checkbox beside it (see Figure 3-17).
Figure 3-17. Package Group Selection
Select each component you wish to install. Selecting
Everything
(at the end of the component list)
during a custom installation installs all packages included with Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES. If you
select every package, you will need approximately 1.7 GB of free disk space.
3. A desktop environment in Linux is similar to the environment you might see in other operating systems.
However, environments differ in their look and feel and are easily customized for your individual needs.