Install GUI on Ubuntu Server

Here is a quick guide on how to install GUI on your new Ubuntu LAMP server. This guide runs through how to install the desktop environment.

Enable Universe and multiverse repositories in /etc/apt/sources.list file

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

This installs 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

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