How to install GUI desktop on a server?
Depending on which desktop you wish to install, you install the the meta-package that installs all the necessary packages. You can use apt-get
or aptitude
to do this.
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
installs the Unity desktop
sudo aptitude install kubuntu-desktop
would install the KDE desktop
Other desktop meta-packages are xubuntu-desktop
, ubuntu-gnome-desktop
, lubuntu-desktop
, and edubuntu-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 aptitude install --without-recommends ubuntu-desktop
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop