Hello, I will give it a shot in the future. What I found that kickstart does not like yum installs at all in the %post% section. It will execute commands like add user, create files, create directories but not yum installs such as: yum update -y yum install epel-release -y yum groupinstall "Server with GUI" -y yum groupinstall "Xfce" -y Also the other reply is completely irrelevant since the point here is fully automating the install with kickstart. Unfortunately if you use the GUI you will need to push FINISH once during the setup: eula --agreed doesn't help on that either. On 2019-02-15 17:42, James Szinger wrote: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 3:01 AM <freebsd at tango.lu> wrote: >> I am working on a kickstart automated Centos 7 GUI vm deployment. >> >> Defining gnome desktop in kickstart works. >> @gnome-desktop - A GNOME desktop >> >> However Centos and anything from the epel-release such as xrdp does >> not >> work. >> >> I have tried it on different ways. >> >> >> repo --name=epel-release >> %packages >> #epel-release # DOES NOT WORK >> @ Core #@core >> @ Base #@base >> @ X Window System #@x11 >> #@ XFCE # DOES NOT WORK >> @xfce-desktop # DOES NOT WORK >> #@Server with GUI # DOES NOT WORK >> #Xfce # DOES NOT WORK >> #xrdp # DOES NOT WORK >> >> I would also like to do a full system upgrade automatically. > > > You need to tell anaconda where to find the repo: > > repo --name=EPEL > --baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/ > > You can then use EPEL packages in the %packages section. It's better > to point to a local or nearby mirror if you do this often. Add > another line for the updates repo to get those installed. My typical > kickstart file has lines like: > > url --url=https://.../centos/7/os/x86_64/ > > repo --name=base --baseurl=https://.../centos/7/os/x86_64/ > repo --name=updates --baseurl=https:/.../centos/7/updates/x86_64/ > repo --name=EPEL --baseurl=https://.../fedora-epel/7/x86_64/ > > I have successfully installed MATE and XFCE this way. > > Jim > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos