Vivace is a desktop environment for PhotonOS. It is a set of extra RPMs like xorg-server, lxde, firefox...
git clone https://github.com/vmware/vivace.git
cd vivace
git submodule update --init
make packages
Pre-built binaries for Vivace are available through the following YUM repository that can be configured on your Photon deployment.
Create the file "/etc/yum.repos.d/vivace.repo" with the following contents.
[vivace]
name=VMware Vivace 0.1(x86_64)
baseurl=https://vmware.bintray.com/vivace_release_0.1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY
gpgcheck=0
enabled=1
skip_if_unavailable=True
Vivace provides RPM meta package with dependencies on all the Vivace's RPMs.
tdnf install vui