Comments on: How to Install GUI (Gnome 3) Using CD/DVD on RHEL/CentOS 7

By: Sudi

Sudi — Fri, 07 Jul 2017 08:16:28 +0000

Hello

I am new to Cent OS, so my questions may look very basic, but need help to move forward

Installed Cent OS 7 (32 Bit) on Oracle VM, when installing – used Cent OS Everything iso and selected Server with GUI as Base Environment and all the add-ons (it was a long list)

Version check result –
centos-release-7-3.1611.el7.centos.i686
GNOME version 3.14.0

But where is the GUI Package manager Yumex, it is no seen where to find it or install it

Thank you

By: Dhinesh

Dhinesh — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 16:45:32 +0000

Hello Ravi, Your post have crystal clear step by step instruction helped me! Thank you!

By: Lee Chang Hwa

Lee Chang Hwa — Tue, 29 Nov 2016 14:41:36 +0000

great!!!

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 07:13:25 +0000

In reply to Optimxr.

@Optimxr,

Yeah, that’s great to know, you finally install GUI i.e Gnome Desktop on CentOS 7. I hope you learned few things today..

By: Optimxr

Optimxr — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 06:41:48 +0000

In reply to Ravi Saive.

Thanks Ravi, I found the problem, I had a lower case “c” for the PGP= statement instead of “CentOS-7”

I made that change and then ran:

# yum –disablerepo=* --enablerepo=centos7dvd groupinstall “GNOME Desktop”

and all 993 packages were installed & verified. I then unmounted the cdrom by typing:

# umount /mnt/cdrom

but the message said nothing mounted.
I typed in the GUI target switch as follows:

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

There were no errors, just went to the root prompt again. When I rebooted, it went to the normal Centos 7 command line login.

I logged in as root and typed

# init 5

and it then started the GUI.

I repeated this process once more and now it boots to the GUI.

Happy Days!!! Thanks for all you good instructions and patience.