startup RHEL 7 in GUI

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Hi
I install RHEL 7.5 . By the way, I startup on text user interface.
I want to know a way to install and startup on Graphical User Interface?

Thanks
Francis SZE

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Hi,

Check if you've gnome packages installed:

#rpm -qa|grep gnome-desktop

If the system installed in text mode then you would not get to see any gnome or X related packages installed, if that is the case then you could run the command

#yum groupinstall "Server with GUI" 

to get all X window and related packages installed. After this you could change the default target by running the command:

#systemctl set-default graphical.target

#systemctl get-default <----- to verify the default target

Once done, you could boot into graphical target by running the command:

#systemctl isolate graphical.target

That's all.

Hi Francis,

Everything that Sadashiva nicely explained can be done automatically when you select "Server with GUI" from the Anaconda
installer during the initial installation process. Thought I'd add this information in case you want to start over from scratch. :)

Regards,
Christian

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