How to install a GUI on CentOS?

ulkoma · 03-11-2012, 09:46 AM

Simply I choose minimal install during the installation
Now I want to add X11 and a GUI

What are the required commands?

Thanks

mesiol · 03-11-2012, 10:11 AM

Did you try

Code:

 yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment"

?

colucix · 03-11-2012, 10:16 AM

You can install a Desktop environment using yum groupinstall. If you're running CentOS 6, you can try one of:

Code:

yum groupinstall Desktop
yum groupinstall "KDE Desktop"
yum groupinstall Xfce

to install the default GNOME Desktop, KDE or Xfce respectively. Use

Code:

yum grouplist

to see a complete list of available groups. You may want to install the group "X Window System" prior to install the desktop manager, but I think it's required (and automatically selected) as a dependency. Good luck!

Edit: the command suggested by mesiol above is valid in CentOS 5, whereas the GNOME group in CentOS 6 is simply named "Desktop". Good to notice, anyway.

ulkoma · 03-11-2012, 11:52 AM

both

Code:

yum groupinstall Desktop

and

Code:

yum groupinstall "KDE Desktop"

worked but who I start the GUI after that?

mesiol · 03-11-2012, 12:58 PM

The default runlevel is defined in your inittab file in. After installing the gui you should change the defult runlevel to 5. If you do not whish to have the gui starting as default you can use

Code:

startx

from a shell.

Rev310 · 03-19-2015, 10:00 AM

I know I am late to the party but to install a desktop on centos 6 its yum groupinstall Desktop.

zafar_dandoti · 03-19-2015, 12:23 PM

Me too!
After doing yum groupinstall desktop
Install fonts
yum groupinstall Fonts

JJJCR · 03-20-2015, 01:04 AM

after installing the gui using yum.

do an startx as mesiol suggests or do ctrl+alt+f7

DavidMcCann · 03-20-2015, 11:35 AM

In CentOS, the GUI is Ctrl+Alt+F1 - they moved it.