How To Install and Configure GNome on CentOS 7
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This document provides instructions for installing and configuring the Gnome desktop environment on CentOS 7. It begins with pre-requisites like ensuring the system is updated. It then checks if Gnome is already installed before using YUM to install the GNOME Desktop group package. Post-installation steps include launching the GUI, configuring the system to use Gnome by default, rebooting, and verifying Gnome loads correctly.
How To Install and Configure GNome on CentOS 7
- 1. How To Install and Configure Gnome Desktop on CentOS 7 i | P a g e Table of Contents Overview.......................................................................................................................................................1 Applies To......................................................................................................................................................1 Pre-requisites................................................................................................................................................1 Update System..........................................................................................................................................1 Pre-Install – Check Installation Status.......................................................................................................1 Pre-Install – Group Information................................................................................................................2 Pre-Install – Verify Install..........................................................................................................................3 Install Group Package – GNOME Desktop ....................................................................................................3 Post-Install – Launch GUI..........................................................................................................................3 Post-Install – Configure Default Environment ..........................................................................................3 Post-Install – Reboot Server......................................................................................................................4 Post-Reboot – Login..................................................................................................................................4
- 2. How To Install and Configure Gnome Desktop on CentOS 7 1 | P a g e Overview In this guide we will go through the steps of installation and configuration of “Gnome Desktop” or graphical user interface, with YUM Linux package management utility. Also, “GNOME Desktop” is a YUM groups package. Applies To CentOS 7.1.1503 (Core), tested on CentOS 7.x (minimal install) Pre-requisites Internet connection to fetch and install packages. DHCP or static IP Address enabled or assigned host. system update. sudo or root access to the host. Update System First thing that you have to ensure that the system is updated with current patches installed. If the patches are not installed, run the command; yum -y update Pre-Install – Check Installation Status Before you install the package, check if the package is already installed on the server, run the command; if the package is already installed, skip to step “Post-Install – Launch GUI”. yum grouplist
- 3. How To Install and Configure Gnome Desktop on CentOS 7 2 | P a g e Pre-Install – Group Information To get additional information about group’s packages that will be installed with different groups, run the command(s); yum groupinfo "GNOME Desktop" -q yum groupinfo "Server with GUI" -q
- 4. How To Install and Configure Gnome Desktop on CentOS 7 3 | P a g e Pre-Install – Verify Install To know whether “GNOME Desktop” is already installed, run the command; yum list installed | grep -i gnome Install Group Package – GNOME Desktop If the package is not installed, next step is to install package “GNOME Desktop”, to install the package run the command; yum group install -y "GNOME-Desktop" Post-Install – Launch GUI To start the GUI mode, once you close the session, GUI session will be terminated (it’s to test); run the command; startx Post-Install – Configure Default Environment To boot server with Graphical Mode loaded by default, systemd has to be reconfigured; systemctl get-default In case target is not set to graphical mode, to set graphical environment as default environment upon boot, run the command; systemctl set-default graphical.target
- 5. How To Install and Configure Gnome Desktop on CentOS 7 4 | P a g e Post-Install – Reboot Server After systemd reconfiguration server has to be rebooted the server, after configuration which will enable server to boot in GUI mode of “GNOME Desktop”. Post-Reboot – Login After login into the server, to check if gnome is loaded, you can run the command in the terminal; ps -A | egrep -i "gnome|kde|mate|cinnamon|lxde|xfce|jwm" or gnome-shell --version