Install GUI on centos7 linux

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GUI is an interface that uses icons or other visual indicators to interact with electronic devices. For example all version of microsoft window is GUI.There are many diffrent graphical users interface are available for linux as example we will be using GNOME.

For example all version of microsoft window is GUI.There are many diffrent graphical users interface are available for linux as example we will be using GNOME.

The graphical user interface (GUI) installed and it will loading up after system boot, If we are having install centos without the GUI we can always install it later. And its a good option if we are using centos on desktop.

Install GUI In Centos

This is as simple as installing the “GNOME desktop” package group which is already configured to install many more packages which is required GUI installing.

[[email protected]]#yum group install " GNOME Desktop"-y

Start The GUI

While installing the ” GNOME desktop all the packages of default target will not changed, And after reboot the GUI will not be loaded automatically.

[[email protected]~}#systemct1 get-default
 multi-user.target}

In this case multi-user target is equivalent to run level3, that means after a reboot the GUI will not be loaded here. we are alternatively set the default to the graphical target, which is equal to run level5

{[[email protected] ~]# systemctl set-default graphical.target

Removed symlink /etc/systemd/system/default.target.

Created symlink from /etc/systemd/system/default.target to /usr/lib/systemd/system/graphical.target.

[[email protected] ~]# systemctl get-default
graphical.target

All future boots should boot to the graphical target by defaults.

Removing GUI

If we know after installing GUI on server and thought that it was a terrible mistake.

So dont worry about it, we can do Delete it in a very simple way by removing “GNOME Desktop package group”.

[[email protected] ~]# yum groupremove "GNOME Desktop"