Tuesday, September 25, 2012

How to Install the graphical Ubuntu Server environment 12.04


If you have a server at home, or at work, is because you know what you want and do not allow yourself to be subject to the laws of the hosting services, and if you're reading this, surely you own a server with Ubuntu Server 12.04, one of the best on the market. But you can do better, if the server is powerful enough to handle the traffic, and a graphical files installed on it, the best option is to install Ubuntu GUI.
Let's do this, the first step is to check that you have "installed" the universe and multiverse repositories, and for this, we use nano:


sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list



In this file we see that there are these lines (each separated is simply looking for one to one):

deb http://es.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise universe
deb-src http://es.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise universe
deb http://es.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates universe
deb-src http://es.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates universe
deb http://es.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise multiverse
deb-src http://es.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise multiverse
deb http://es.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates multiverse
deb-src http://es.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates multiverse
deb http://es.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://es.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-backports main restricted universe multiverse


All should not wear a pad at first (#), because if the lead is because they have not commented and "installed", if necessary, remove the pad and, after saving the file and close it (Ctrl + O, Enter, Ctrl + X):


sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade


After upgrading the system and enabled universe and multiverse repositories, proceed to install the desktop environment:


sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop


Installing the package ubuntu-desktop without more, will install Gnome, with all that usually Gnome, including Evolution, LibreOffice, etc. If you do not want to install this type of program on a server that are not useful, then run above command instead of this:


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


Also worth mentioning that you can install XFCE instead of Gnome:


sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop

About KDE:

sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop


And even LXDE:


sudo apt-get install lxde

With these simple steps you will have the environment that you want on your server, to handle quickly, comfortably and safely.


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