You installed CentOS 8 / RHEL 8 as a minimal server, but you now want to add graphical user interface to it – here is quick tutorial on how to do it.
First, we need to list available package groups:
yum group list
We need to install “Server with GUI”
Next command we are going to use is:
yum groupinstall "Server with GUI"
You will be ask to approve installation – confirm with y
Download follows…
And then installation…
And finally, after some time – complete!
Next, we will issue a command that will enable our CentOS 8 / RHEL 8 install to boot by default into graphical interface
systemctl set-default graphical
reboot
After reboot you should be greeted with GUI
One more success :)