Need to install a GUI on your Cloud Server?

Here's a simple guide to install GNOME Desktop Environment on a CentOS 6 VPS  server.

Lets start!

Run the following commands to install the GNOME elements, tools and fonts:

yum groupinstall -y 'X Window System'
yum groupinstall -y 'Desktop'
yum groupinstall -y fonts

Wait until it has downloaded and installed everything.

Now after everything is installed we will setup CentOS 6 so that it boots with the GUI.

Open inittab with a text editor:

nano /etc/inittab

Change

to

Save the file and reboot.

That's it.