Installation of Leap 16 does not boot graphical interface

[phschmitt27]

I use a second older lenovo laptop. The OpenSuse Leap 15.4 OS on it got broken. I created a bootable life usb stick, following the instructions on opensuse.org. The installation started well but did not
install a graphical interface. I had expected to be offered a choice of an environment during set-up. But, this did not happen. I tried to
install kde using zypper. This produced the following error message

Leeres Ziel in URI: hd:/install?device=/dev/disk/by-id/wwn-0x50000396d2f80961-part2

In directory /dev/disk/by-id/ we see

wwn-0x50025388a03e89a1-part2 → …/…/sda2

lsblk yields

sda disk
sda1 part /boot/efi
sda2 part /var
/usr/local
/srv
/root
/opt
/boot/grub2/x86_63-efi
/home
/boot/grub2/i386-pc
/.snpashots
/
sda3 part [SWAP]

what is going wrong here?

[myswtest]

@phschmitt27 wrote:

The installation started well but did not install a graphical interface. I had expected to be offered a choice of an environment during set-up. But, this did not happen.

Welcome to the Forum.

I suspect you overlooked the “Software” option on the main install screen. See screenshots.

1. Click on “Software” option,
2. then next screen, click “Change selection”,
3. then third screen, choose which DE you want.

I would suggest to re-install from scratch. Or, you could use Myrlyn to select the DE Pattern you want, then select the DE to install.

.

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[phschmitt27]

Thank you very much for this hint. You were right. That was a silly oversight on my part. Now I am back in track.

[shundhammer]

If you start out without any graphical environment, you can also use zypper on the command line to see and to install patterns:

% zypper se -t pattern


S  | Name                    | Summary                                                             | Type
---+-------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------+--------
   | 32bit                   | 32-Bit Runtime Environment                                          | pattern
i+ | base                    | Base System                                                         | pattern
   | basic_desktop           | A basic desktop (based on IceWM)                                    | pattern
     ...
i+ | cockpit                 | Pattern for Cockpit, a web based remote system management interface | pattern
   | console                 | Console Tools                                                       | pattern
     ...
   | kde                     | KDE Applications and Plasma Desktop                                 | pattern
   | kde_pim                 | KDE PIM Suite                                                       | pattern
   | kde_plasma              | KDE Plasma 6 Desktop Base                                           | pattern
   | kdump                   | Kernel dump tooling                                                 | pattern
   | kvm_server              | KVM Host Server                                                     | pattern
   | kvm_tools               | KVM Virtualization Host and tools                                   | pattern
   | lamp_server             | Web and LAMP Server                                                 | pattern
   | laptop                  | Mobile                                                              | pattern
   | lxde                    | LXDE Desktop Environment                                            | pattern
   | lxqt                    | LXQt Desktop Environment                                            | pattern
     ...

Then

sudo zypper in -t pattern kde

(This will pull in required other patterns and their packages, too, of course)