Gnome/KDE (Firefox + Flashplayer) For ClearOS 6.3

 Overview

The ClearOS Desktop environment is useful for certain application which require the X interface. For simplicity and security, ClearOS comes with only the graphical console for enough Webconfig components to enable remote administration through a web browser.

Preparation

You will need to exit the graphical console in order to use the graphical desktop. This is because only one or the other can occupy the graphical space at a time. To exit the graphical console type the following keystroke combination, CTRL + ALT + BACKSPACE
This will place you at a black screen with a red box asking for root's credentials. If you log in here, you can relaunch the graphical console. For now, stay at the red screen.
Switch to command line by pressing CTRL+ALT+F2. Log in as root.

Installing KDE

To install the graphical desktop from command line please run the following:

yum --enablerepo=clearos-core install gnome-terminal kdemultimedia

There will be quite a few packages that get downloaded and installed.

Launching the Graphical Desktop

From the console and with the Graphical Console logged out, start the graphical desktop by typing:

reboot 

startx

Install Firefox

yum install http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/updates/i386/RPMS/firefox-10.0.12-1.el5.centos.i386.rpm

Install Adobe YUM Repository RPM package

## Adobe Repository 32-bit x86 ## 

 rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm 

 rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux

 

## Adobe Repository 64-bit x86_64 ## 

 rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm 

 rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux

 

 Install Adobe Flash Player 11.2 on Fedora 18/17/16/15/14/13/12, CentOS 6.3/6.2/6.1/6 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6.3/6.2/6.1/6 Fedora 18/17/16/15/14/13/12, CentOS 6 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6 32-bit and 64-bit version

yum install flash-plugin nspluginwrapper alsa-plugins-pulseaudio libcurl

Install Adobe Flash Player 11.2 on CentOS 5.8 and Red Hat (RHEL) 5.8 CentOS and Red Hat 32-bit and 64-bit version

yum groupinstall "Sound and Video"
 
yum install flash-plugin nspluginwrapper curl