Installation of the GNOME desktop environment under Linux

In the actual work, whether in the production environment or the company's internal environment, many times installed Linux system is minimized installation, that is, no desktop environment, if sometimes we need a desktop environment, how to install it? In fact, it is not difficult, now I will install the method to share the following.

Test environment: Centos 6.3
Desktop Type: Gnome
Installation method:

[[email protected]5201351 ~] Yum " Desktop "  -Y[[email protected]5201351 ~]yum"X Window System" -  y

After installing the two sets of packages, we only need to enter "Init 5" switch to Level 5 do not press the prompt to initialize the desktop, after the first initialization, we can through the Init 5 command, but also through the "startx" command to enter the desktop environment, If you need to get into the system every time you have a desktop environment,

can modify the contents of the/etc/inittab, Change the Id:3:initdefault: 3 to 5, as shown in:

Installation of the GNOME desktop environment under Linux