A desktop environment is useful for certain applications which require a full graphical desktop manager. For simplicity and security, ClearOS comes with only the graphical console for enough Webconfig components to enable remote administration through a web browser.
ClearOS is not designed for desktop managers and installing a full desktop is highly NOT recommended. This howto is only for proof of concept and should never be implemented in a production environment. In addition, only the Community Edition is supported (this will not work in the Home and Business Editions).
Preparation
You will need to install a great deal of packages and also be able to reboot the system. Because you will need to reboot, you can install the packages remotely over SSH or you can do so at the console by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F2.
Installing Packages
From command line, run the following:
yum update
The purpose of this command is to get the packages up to date from the subscription that you are working from. The installation of the ClearOS Desktop will update packages from additional repositories and you will want to ensure that your system is already up to date to limit the number of packages that will be sourced in your install.
Because different repos are involved in this process that are outside the repos included with your subscription, You may introduce bugs and anomalies that are not tested. As such, doing this next step may invalidate some of the support options that you are entitled to resulting in best effort support
yum --enablerepo=clearos-centos groupinstall "X Window System"
yum --enablerepo=clearos-centos install gnome-classic-session gnome-terminal nautilus-open-terminal control-center liberation-mono-fonts firefox
There will be quite a few packages that get downloaded and installed with these two commands.
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