Saturday, November 5, 2011

Install Ubuntu Desktop on Ubuntu server 11.04

First you nee to make sure you have enabled Universe and multiverse repositories in /etc/apt/sources.list file once you have enable you need to use the following command to install GUI

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

The above command will install GNOME desktop

If you wan to install a graphical desktop manager without some of the desktop addons like Evolution and OpenOffice, but continue to use the server flavor kernel use the following command

sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends ubuntu-desktop

If you want to install light weight desktop install xfce using the following command

sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop

If you want to install KDE desktop use the following command

sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop

2 comments:

  1. Thats great becasue i tryed it sudo apt-get update and i get error messages i do not know how to enabled Universe and multiverse repositories in /etc/apt/sources.list file.
    I have just installed ubuntu server with a static ip it is on the internet i can ping it i get errors saying fetch errors. Some index files failed to download . They have been ignored or old ones used this is ubuntu server latest edition.

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