What is the recommended way to install Gnome on Fedora 30 Server?

I’m talking about Fedora I do not know about RHEL .
In fedora you can list all groups include hidden groups like this .

sudo dnf group list hidden -v

sudo dnf group list hidden -v |grep -i gnome

to install group example gnome group .

sudo dnf group install “GNOME Desktop Environment”

or

sudo dnf group install gnome-desktop

or

sudo dnf install @gnome-desktop

The three command are the same.

Maybe you need later enable gdm.service(gnome display manager) and set target to graphical.target .

sudo systemctl enable gdm.service

sudo systemctl set-default graphical.target

Groups are defined in repositories see this link.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_use_and_edit_comps.xml_for_package_groups

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