How to install LXDE and replace Gnome?

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Hello i really want to install LXDE on my Red Hat enterprise im not a big fan of Gnome at all i tried KDE but that focused more on eye candy and feels strangely cheap.

I just want a simple and clean GUI for my RedHat how can i install LXDE?

Thank you.

Ernesto Marquez's picture
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Jamie Bainbridge's picture Red Hat Guru 7257 points
22 April 2018 11:01 PM

LXDE has been deprecated upstream, they now focus on LXQt which is in EPEL:

There is no yum group so just yum search lxqt and install all of those packages.

EPEL also has XFCE (yum groupinstall "Xfce") and MATE Desktop (yum groupinstall "MATE Desktop") if you wish to try those.

Ernesto Marquez's picture Community Member 45 points
23 April 2018 8:09 AM

Yeah i got it installed the epel actually was not even installed so i messed that step up, also this seems like its from Xubuntu?

Its lightweight and all but this wasnt what i thought it was is the gui from "Lubuntu" i was hoping for that one is not available?

Ernesto Marquez's picture Community Member 45 points
23 April 2018 6:14 AM

They didnt seem to work at all im afraid, as much as im not a big fan of gnome il stick with it, also since im no longer going forward with this can the Epel be disabled?

Christian Labisch's picture Guru 9710 points
23 April 2018 7:22 AM

Hi Ernesto,

If you don't have other packages from EPEL installed, you can remove the repo, but if you have, you should keep it. :)

Regards,
Christian

Ernesto Marquez's picture Community Member 45 points
23 April 2018 8:08 AM

Hello and yeah i will keep it turns out i never installed it.. bummer on my end.

Jamie Bainbridge's picture Red Hat Guru 7257 points
23 April 2018 6:47 AM

Yes, yum remove epel-release should do it.

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