Hi, I've tried a few installations with CentOS-7, but when I try a.) Server with GUI b.) GNOME Desktop there are a lot of packages, (1.200) will be installed. What I'm missing, is a installation like 'Minimal Desktop' as in CentOS-6 for a minimal server installation with GUI.
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Things like 'weather, libreoffice' and so on, are totaly oversize for my needs. Is there a trick to get a similar installation like 'Minimal Desktop' in CentOS-7 too? Thank you for any reply Thomas. SOLVED - See the following description: Here is a desciption at my own non commercial DokuWiki (sorry, only in german language): thank you 'Gabor' for bringing me on the right way. To reach a CentOS7 Minimal Desktop Installation you can do following steps: 1.
Install CentOS-7 - Minimal (First entry point in list) 2. Yum groupinstall 'X Window System' 3. Yum install gnome-classic-session gnome-terminal nautilus-open-terminal control-center liberation-mono-fonts 4. Unlink /etc/systemd/system/default.target 5. Ln -sf /lib/systemd/system/graphical.target /etc/systemd/system/default.target 6.
Jan 5, 2019 - This tutorial explains how to install GUI (desktop environment) on CentOS 7. How to enable GUI on startup and how to switch to GUI from CLI. Feb 7, 2019 - TeamViewer is a cross-platform solution that can be used for remote control, desktop sharing and file transfer between computers.
Reboot Now you have a CentOS-7 Minimal Desktop installation LIKE CentOS-6 Minimal Desktop Enjoy!
My original of CentOS 7 was less enthusiastic than I hoped for. That is because CentOS 7 did not quite deliver the punch that I expected. Truth to be told, this is the one operating system I am most excited about. Mint and are friendlier, but CentOS carries with it the solid confidence of old royalty. Another glitch that came to bear in my review was that extra repositories with all that golden content you want were not ready. And so, I could not test most of the juicy stuff that we all need, like music, games and the rest. Now though, we can finally do that.
This is the one guide that will transform CentOS into a truly remarkable desktop lean mean killing machine. Enable additional repositories We will use provided by Nux, the guy who maintains several RedHat Linux family repositories. He has also created, a remarkable spinoff of CentOS 6, with everything enabled out of the box. With the help from this man, we will be able to transform CentOS 7 into a total pimp.
What you need to do is download two RPM and install them. Management, as I've shown you on a bunch of occasions in the past. This will unveil the magic. Unlock the hidden levels. Rpm -Uvh epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm rpm -Uvh nux-dextop-release-0-5.el7.nux.noarch.rpm. Steam Let's start with this great platform. Because of the Glibc dependencies, Steam could not be installed in the older RedHat 6 family and its 2.6.18 kernel + glibc version.
But here, yeah baby yeah. Yum install steam Skype Another nice and easy choice.
The new version 4.3 also looks quite neat. Yum install skype Google Chrome This was also discontinued at some point for the older RedHat family, due to Glibc dependencies.
We no longer face that obstacle. On a side note, Firefox wise, there's really no need to do anything special, you get the releases, so all is well there. With Chrome, we need a dedicated repository, much like we did in CentOS 6. For 32-bit systems: google name=Google - i386 baseurl=enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=For 64-bit systems: google64 name=Google - x8664 baseurl=enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=Now, you can install Google Chrome using the yum command line. There are several releases, but you probably want the stable branch: yum install google-chrome-stable Java OpenJDK framework is available in the repositories, including the browser plugins. Install and enjoy, as much as Java can be enjoyed really.
Yum install java Flash This is quite interesting. There's no Flash in Nux's repo, but you can go to Adobe's official site and download the YUM package. It's an RPM that installs a repo file under /etc/yum.repos.d, so you actually get a Flash repository and updates. Rpm -Uvh adobe-release-x8664-1.0-1.noarch.rpm warning: adobe-release-x8664-1.0-1.noarch.rpm: Header V3 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID f6777c67: NOKEY Preparing. ############# 100%) Updating / installing.
1:adobe-release-x8664-1.0-1 ############# 100%) And if you search, you will see this: Then, you install with: yum install flash-plugin MP3 support Now, to get the right codecs for music, you will need to install the good and ugly Gstreamer plugins. To be on the safe side, try the following packages, including both the older 0.1 and the new 1.0 frameworks, plus ffmpeg: yum install gstreamer gstreamer1 gstreamer-ffmpeg gstreamer-plugins-good gstreamer-plugins-ugly VideoLAN (VLC) You must get this fine player: yum install vlc LibreOffice The office suite is also sort of a must, no: yum install libreoffice LyX But if you want to write documents the, then you have to use LyX, a frontend for LaTeX, the text processor from another dimension.
Forget Word, Writer and such. That's for kids. Yum install lyx GIMP For and whatnot! Yum install gimp Transmission This is an excellent little BitTorrent P2P client. And it's here without any great fussing. Yum install transmission What else?
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A desktop + desktop effects gallery! Well, we did see a few neat tricks the last time. Samba sharing and access to NTFS devices, read and write, works fine, and so does auto-mounting of NTFS-formatted external disk. No problem with SSD, which the machine has two thereof. Wireless, both 2.4GHz and 5GHz networks. And of course, desktop effects work just fine.
Shall we demonstrate. Surely there's more?
But of course! We have not done everything yet. Like Nvidia drivers for instance.
Do not worry, we will be having a few separate tutorials addressing some of the other, more delicate topics. However, my CentOS 6 Nvidia is still 100% relevant. And then, there's printing, too. More reading If you care, here's more splendid RedHat and CentOS 6 stuff: The ultimate Linux pimping guide The essential pimping guide How to make CentOS 6 into a desktop CentOS 6 pimping guides - parts and CentOS 6 in my setup CentOS 6 & stuff Conclusion There we go.
CentOS 7 has regained its awesomeness again. Had I not tested the distro so early, I would never have encountered those initial woes and niggles. But the operating system has redeemed itself. And I do take back my comment on speed and performance. It's lean, lithe, it flies. YUM is a monster, it's incredibly fast. The desktop is smooth and responsive, far beyond its expected KDE flair.
An excellent job, this one. With a bit of third-party help, CentOS 7 is a modern, relevant, elegant and fully featured distribution with all the perks, goodies and advantages you find in most popular Debian family releases. Plus ten years of robustness. I am totally pleased, and now it's time to expand my usage of this Fedora-19-based gem, because it has everything you need: a modern kernel, stability and tons of great apps.