Introduction
Have you installed CentOS 8 minimal installation and need to change the command line to Graphical user insterface GUI ?
So if you are new to the command line, it will be a great idea to start with a Graphical user interface to learn and become a master of Linux.
Also sometimes, Advanced users need a Graphical desktop environment to handle various services easily.
So this guide will help you to change your command-line CentOS linux server to GUI. or You can install the GUI to your server.
Install GUI Gnome
Just follow the steps below
- Update your system.
dnf update -y
- List available environment groups
dnf group list
The above command list- Server with GUI, Server, Workstation, KDE plasma Workspaces, Virtualization Host, and Custom operating system Groups.
- Install Gnome Desktop environment by downloading this two packages Server with GUI” and Workstation where they are available under environment group.
dnf groupinstall "Server with GUI" && dnf groupinstall "Workstation"
Notes:
- Server with Gui will download about 1 GB of packages.
- Workstation Gnome GUI installation will get 1.1Gb of packages.
- Reboot your server.
reboot
- After the System rebooting, Change the default target which will be multi-user target to Graphical user target.
systemctl set-default graphical
- Finally, reboot again to access GUI.
reboot
- You will see the login screen of Gnome on CentOS, So select the username and type its password to log into your system.
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So Enjoy with the installed GUI.
Conclusion
That’s it..
So In this tutorial, we illustrated how to install Gnome GuI to your CentOS 8 CLI-based minimall Linux.