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I've downloaded CentOS-6.6-i386-minimal.iso (because the DVD images are too large for my narrow internet access. How can I install software (e.g. Gnome desktop) now from the console? Is there something like Yast available where I can select what package to install?

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To install Gnome, you'll use the following commands:

yum -y groupinstall "Desktop" "Desktop Platform" "X Window System" "Fonts"

You can also install the following optional GUI packages.

yum -y groupinstall "Graphical Administration Tools"

yum -y groupinstall "Internet Browser"

yum -y groupinstall "General Purpose Desktop"

yum -y groupinstall "Office Suite and Productivity"

yum -y groupinstall "Graphics Creation Tools"

All this is from here: http://www.idevelopment.info/data/Unix/Linux/LINUX_AddGNOMEToCentOSMinimalInstall.shtml

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  • Unfortunately, I had to dump the minimal system, because it had no network access. Now I'm using the netinstall which works fine.
    – Thomas S.
    Nov 4, 2014 at 5:18
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CentOS' package manager is YUM. There's a pretty good user guide on the CentOS site, but the quick and dirty for installing software with YUM is:

yum install <package-name>

Unless you're already running as root you'll need to sudo or su as appropriate.

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