Sunday, May 12, 2013

Install Gnome in ClearOS

Sometimes the console in ClearOS may not be the most easy to work with (or you may like pretty pictures and icons and buttons like I do) so what do you do then? Easy..You install Gnome! And how do you do that you ask? I'm glad you did. Very easy.

First of all I tend to enable all repositories in ClearOS even if I'm not going to use them. Ehh if it breaks, it breaks. I can fix it later on.

Log in to the console as root, and type:
yum install gnome-common nautilus gdm
yum install xterm
yum install gnome-panel
yum install gnome-terminal

After the installation finishes type startx to start the GUI. This way I was able to install Opera, manually add permissions to folders in different parts of the Flexishares and in a way faster and easier than the console. Go on give it a go, it might be helpful for you too.