Linux – CentOs 6.3 x64 installed with no GUI

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I downloaded a fresh ISO of CentOs 6.3 from here. After installing successfully, CentOs loads a text based linux.

How do i load the GUI?

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You can run:

yum groupinstall "X Window System"

And possibly change the /etc/inittab to default to runlevel 5.

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Centos – Text-based package manager GUI for CentOS

yum:

http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/yum/

I don't know of an ncurses front for it but there is "Yum Extender" (yumex) which is a full GUI front-end to yum.

Hope that helps.

Linux – Install MySQL 5.6 on CentOS 6.3 gone WRONG

Do you have SELinux enabled? It's possible that the MySQL packages are not built to play nice with SELinux (not uncommon for 3rd party packages) and that it is blocking access to creating the PID file. A quick and dirty test would be to set your SELinux context to Permissive (or Disabled)

# setenforce permissive

If that is not the case then have a look at the file permissions themselves.

For more information on SELinux:
Red Hat SELinux Documentation for RHEL6
SELinux Project Wiki

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