HowTo Install GNOME Desktop Centos 7 Step by Step Guide

GNOME Stands for GNU Network Object Model Environment. GNOME Desktop will give you ultimate/cool environment to work on and powerful GUI as well. In this article we are going to HowTo Install GNOME Desktop Centos 7 Step by Step Guide

Install GNOME Desktop Advantages

• Simple and Easy to Access all your basic tasks
• Helps in making more productivity
• Puts you in Control
• Smooth, Polished Product to use beautiful
• Easily Access All your data

Installation of GNOME Desktop Environment on Centos 7

GNOME is a free and open source desktop environment for Linux based systems. GNOME is developed by The GNOME Project.

Installation of GNOME Desktop Environment: Check the list of available package groups in the server using yum command

# yum group list

Install the GNOME desktop group

# yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop" "Graphical Administration Tools"

 

 

To Enable GUI on your system start up in CentOS7/RHEL7,  Systemd uses “targets” instead of runlevels  “/etc/inittab” file is no more used to change run levels.

below command to enable the GUI on system start.

# ln -sf /lib/systemd/system/runlevel5.target /etc/systemd/system/default.target

set the system to boot directly into the GUI in CentOS7/RHEL7

# systemctl set-default graphical.target

start GUI login from command line

# systemctl start graphical.target

Now reboot your server

# reboot

After rebooted the server accept the licence agreement as shown below screenshot

To “FINISH CONFIGURATION” for complete the setup.

GNOME Successfully installed.

That’s it.

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