Install GNOME DESKTOP in Centos7-minimal install!
After you install the centos7-minimal install and you want to install the desktop environment, you need to do the following things:- 1. Configure network vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-enp0s3 Keep everything as is, just change the onboot=Yes Save and exit 2. Restart the network # /etc/init.d/network restart 3. Check the assigned ip address to the configured interface enp0s3 # ip addr Here you should see the ip address allocated to the interface via DHCP 4. Update centos # yum update This command should be succesful now. 5. You might want to install the "ifconfig" utility, if you are more use to it 6. Run the following command to install "ifconfig" # yum provides ifconfig This will list the package which contains the ifconfig. # yum install net-tools # ifconfig Now check the group which contains the GNOME desktop # yum grouplist You should see "GNOME Desktop" under "Available environment groups". In my case