On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 01:51:21PM +0200, Michael Schumacher wrote: > Dear Giles, > > On Monday, July 11, 2011 you wrote: > > >> So first daft question with Centos 6 (someone had to be first!) I've setup > >> Centos 6 as a Server but as with Centos 5 it used to boot into the GUI but > >> v6 doesn't do this, startx etc doesn't seem to work to launch the GUI > > > perhaps:: > > yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment" > > There is no "GNOME Desktop Environment" group. Check with yum > grouplist and you will see. And even installing "KDE Desktop" won't > help, because it is not starting automatically. And then, we don't > have runlevels any more, this means a little bit more looking into > details is required. > As RH has always been overly (IMHO) Gnome-centric, I believe that "Desktop Platform, or even basic desktop, will give you Gnome. (Desktop or, using the shortname, which in this case, is actually longer, @basic-desktop). -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Giles: Demons after money. Whatever happened to the still-beating heart of a virgin? No one has any standards anymore.