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I haven't installed any graphical interface like X Window on Centos, and found its solution how to install it for my personal purpose. Please take a look below steps to install "Gnome Shell" as a main graphical interface.


STEP 1. Install X Window System

yum groupinstall "X Window System"


STEP 2. To add the Gnome Shell desktop on CentOS 7, you would do:

yum install gnome-classic-session gnome-terminal nautilus-open-terminal control-center liberation-mono-fonts


This would provide you with a minimal Gnome Desktop environment. You do have to do a couple of other steps:

unlink /etc/systemd/system/default.target
ln -sf /lib/systemd/system/graphical.target / /etc/systemd/system/default.target


This will allow it to start on boot as you are setting it for the default boot target runlevel.

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