Installing server functions on Ubuntu Desktop

The server and desktop editions are very similar -- they largely simply have different selections of default packages.

What do you want to do?

I want to be able to use the basic functions of Ubuntu server on the desktop version.

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On Oct 28, 2011, at 7:15 PM, mycae <email address hidden> wrote:

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What do you consider to be the basic functions of Ubuntu server?

You can install whatever services/daemons you want, just like in the server version. They both can use the same packages. If you want the server kernel, you can install that too (install the packages called linux-server and linux-image-server).

Please note also that there are good reasons to generally avoid running a GUI on a system that is being used as high-demand or highly critical server (though it is certainly OK to do so for many applications). And it is possible that you might prefer to start with an Ubuntu server system and install a GUI on it (but probably not, because it takes a lot longer to do that, and also because if it is reasonable to have a GUI installed, you probably do not need the server kernel). See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ServerGUI for details pertinent to both these points.