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  • Installing the Xfce desktop environment on RHEL 9

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    Hello everyone. I would like to install the lightweight desktop environment Xfce on one of my older laptops running RHEL 9. Is the following procedure correct?

    subscription-manager repos --enable codeready-builder-for-rhel-9-$(arch)-rpms

    dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-9.noarch.rpm

    sudo rpm -qi epel-release

    sudo dnf --enablerepo=epel group

    sudo dnf group list | grep -i xfce

    sudo dnf groupinstall "Xfce" "base-x"

    sudo echo "exec /usr/bin/xfce4-session" >> ~/.xinitrc

    sudo systemctl set-default graphical

    sudo reboot

    Thanks in advance.

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