Tuesday, July 15, 2014

CentOS 7: Install KDE Desktop

The K Desktop Environment (KDE) can be installed from the CentOS-7 repository using the following yum command. KDE is a Linux desktop environment.

yum groupinstall "KDE Plasma Workspaces"
After installing KDE, it can be started from the shell (or from an xstartup script) with the following command:

startkde &
The above commands are also compatible with RHEL 7.