We can check the current default target as shown below. Start The GUIīy default after installing these packages, the default target should have automatically updated, meaning that after a reboot the GUI will automatically be loaded. Note that this may take a while, on my minimal installation I needed to download around 160 packages which took up about 550MB on top of the Server with GUI package group.

Installing the MATE Desktop Environment is now as simple as installing the “MATE Desktop” package group, which then has many dependencies to install many more packages that are required for a GUI installation. ~]# yum groupinstall 'Server with GUI' -y Note that this will also install GNOME, you’ll be able to change to MATE later though. Next I needed to install the “Server with GUI” group before proceeding. While there are many different graphical user interfaces available for Linux, in this example we will be using MATE.įirst we need to configure the EPEL repository, as this is where we will be installing packages from.

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