From the course: Learning CentOS Linux
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Setting up a desktop environment
From the course: Learning CentOS Linux
Setting up a desktop environment
- [Male Narrator] Servers usually run headless, without a monitor, so they don't usually need a desktop environment. But CentOS isn't always just used as a server. Sometimes it's used for workstations, and sometimes it can be useful to have a graphical environment available on a server. Configuring a desktop environment manually is pretty complicated and, luckily, CentOS gives us packages and package groups to make installing and configuring common desktop environments a lot easier. Let's take a look at setting up the GNOME desktop on this server. Let's double-check the list of groups that are available for us to install from with YUM grouplist. Here, under available environment groups is GNOME desktop. I can find some information about that group with YUM groupinfo, and GNOME Desktop in quotes. Here, I can see the software that would be installed with the group. And, to install that group, I'll write, YUM groupinstall "GNOME Desktop" This will download over 700 megabytes of software.…
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