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Cannot install GUI On server edition

Asked by cranston

I cannot install the Gui on ubuntu 8.04. server edition. This is a standalone server at the moment, in a few weeks time i am going on a linux administrator course. so i am building my server from scratch.

The command sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop does not work. The server is not connected to the internet., though i do have access to the internet via another computer. i have scoured the internet for a solution and have found nothing. i Can someone please help

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Ian Ace (iaculallad) said : 		#1

Why not just install the desktop edition of Ubuntu and install the LAMP (or any server-related application) server afterwards?

HTH.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

Was thinking the exact same thing. WHY do people do this. Its nonesense. If oyou want a desktop system then install the desktop system. It makes no sense at all. The server is a server because it doesn't have a big bulky x server taking up ram as well as the desktop apps taking up drive space. Installing the ubuntu-desktop package will give you the exact same system if you'd installed the desktop system so why add the extra complication? You will not gain anything installing the ubuntu-desktop on a server system at all except you will have to upgrade the generic kernel as well as the server kernel.
If you need pae then install the generic-pae kernel and you will have a decent kernel. The desktop system can do everything the server can do, the server just doesn't have an x session occupying the ram.

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