{"id":7224,"date":"2018-02-15T19:05:58","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T11:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rmohan.com\/?p=7224"},"modified":"2018-02-15T19:05:58","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T11:05:58","slug":"install-gnome-gui-on-centos-7-rhel-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/?p=7224","title":{"rendered":"Install Gnome GUI on CentOS 7 \/ RHEL 7"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Install Gnome GUI on CentOS 7 \/ RHEL 7<\/span><\/h1>\n
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Linux admins spend most of their time on working in a terminal; there are some who like to work on GUI instead of a terminal. By default, CentOS 7<\/a><\/strong> installed as the minimal server, and user intervention is required to change the installation type. This guide will help you to install GUI on CentOS 7<\/a><\/strong> on the top of the minimal server installation.<\/p>\n

Before installing GUI, make a Local Yum Repository<\/a><\/strong> to avoid downloading packages from the internet.<\/p>\n

Optional:<\/strong> Run the following command to list down the available package groups for CentOS 7<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

# yum group list<\/pre>\n
Output:<\/strong><\/p>\n
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror\r\nThere is no installed groups file.\r\nMaybe run: yum groups mark convert (see man yum)\r\nLoading mirror speeds from cached hostfile\r\nAvailable Environment Groups:\r\n Minimal Install\r\n Compute Node\r\n Infrastructure Server\r\n File and Print Server\r\n Basic Web Server\r\n Virtualization Host\r\n Server with GUI<\/strong>\r\n GNOME Desktop<\/strong>\r\n KDE Plasma Workspaces\r\n Development and Creative Workstation\r\nAvailable Groups:\r\n Compatibility Libraries\r\n Console Internet Tools\r\n Development Tools\r\n Graphical Administration Tools<\/strong>\r\n Legacy UNIX Compatibility\r\n Scientific Support\r\n Security Tools\r\n Smart Card Support\r\n System Administration Tools\r\n System Management\r\nDone<\/pre>\n
Step 1:<\/strong> Install Gnome GUI using the YUM command<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n
CentOS 7<\/strong><\/p>\n
# yum groupinstall \"GNOME Desktop\" \"Graphical Administration Tools\"<\/pre>\n
RHEL 7<\/strong><\/p>\n
# yum groupinstall \"Server with GUI\"<\/pre>\n
Step 2:<\/strong> Enable GUI on system startup. In CentOS 7,\u00a0 systemd uses \u201ctargets<\/strong>\u201d instead of runlevel. The \/etc\/inittab<\/strong> file is no more used to change run levels. So, issue the following command to enable the GUI on system start.<\/p>\n
# ln -sf \/lib\/systemd\/system\/runlevel5.target \/etc\/systemd\/system\/default.target<\/pre>\n
Step 3:<\/strong> Reboot the machine to start the server in the graphical mode.<\/p>\n
# reboot<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
 Install Gnome GUI on CentOS 7 \/ RHEL 7 <\/p>\n
Linux admins spend most of their time on working in a terminal; there are some who like to work on GUI instead of a terminal. By default, CentOS 7 installed as the minimal server, and user intervention is required to change the installation type. This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7224"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7225,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7224\/revisions\/7225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}