Ubuntu Server graphical interface?

Neal McBurnett neal at bcn.boulder.co.us
Wed Apr 30 18:52:10 UTC 2008


On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:40:23AM -0700, MJang wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 20:13 +0200, Sander van Vugt wrote:
> > Sure, I know, you shouldn't run a graphical interface on a server. But
> > some of my customers just want to be able to start up a graphical
> > environment anyway. And since it's my task to server my customers in the
> > most optimal way, I'd like to have some advice here: is there any
> > recommended procedure of setting up X on Ubuntu Server, or is something
> > like
> > 
> > sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg xfonts* gnome
> 
> Similar to what Leandro suggests, there's the kubuntu-desktop and
> xubuntu-desktop meta packages.

There is also eBox - a web-based gui that lets you use any machine to
remotely adminster the server.

 https://help.ubuntu.com/community/eBox

For more on this topic see

 https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ServerGUI

Neal McBurnett                 http://mcburnett.org/neal/




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