​Unable to set up a graphical KDE setup with the RHEL 7.6 ISO

环境

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 +
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 Beta

问题

  • Unable to set up a graphical KDE install with the latest ​​Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6​​ ISO.
  • ​​KDE Desktop​​ packages are not found in RHEL 7.6 and above.

决议

  • As of ​​RHEL 7.6​​, KDE is no longer being offered. Quoting the ​​release notes​​:

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KDE has been deprecated
KDE Plasma Workspaces (KDE), which has been provided as an alternative to the default GNOME desktop environment has been deprecated. A future major release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux will no longer support using KDE instead of the default GNOME desktop environment.

  • Note : This doesn't imply that all the RHEL 7 KDE packages (release in 7.5 and older releases) would now be unsupported. The older releases would be still supported till RHEL 7 support lifecycle, bug and security fixes would go in as and when made available.