Install Xwindows to Ubuntu Server

[Jim Tarvid]

There are several command line configuration tools that would make
that task easier (add zone, add virtual server, add database and
user).

For the original writers intent, tasksel is the easiest route.

Jim

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Mike Lane <mikelane5 at msn.com> wrote:
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>
>> To: ubuntu-server at lists.ubuntu.com
>> From: daniel at rimspace.net
>> Subject: Re: Install Xwindows to Ubuntu Server
>> Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 23:19:53 +1000
>
>> > I have been reading about the questions posed to Ubuntu. It seems
>> > that many others have the same trouble as I do. I wonder why Ubuntu
>> > decided to take the GUI away from the server instllation in the first
>> > place. It may make the whole program leaner. But for the beginners
>> > to Linux, Ubuntu, I am sure that efficiency is not their primary
>> > concern. Their concern is to be up and go to investigate.
>
> My understanding in that there is no GUI for security reasons and to save
> system resources.
>
> As a Windows convert myself I have had a learning curve with a variant of
> Ubuntu server - Ubuntu JeOS.
>
> Personally I am glad that the Ubuntu servers are set the way they are as I
> have had to learn some command line,
> which will always be useful to know. My ubuntu virtual servers have a
> smaller disk and memory footprint that if
> they had a GUI and also they are more secure because of this. SSH makes
> finding my way round the file system easier.
>
> When I first started I was tempted to install a GUI and I could not do it -
> now I am getting happier using the command
> line, partly because most of the solutions that are posted to problems are
> command line also.
>
> I agree with the previous reply, that installing LAMP for example on the
> desktop version would be the
> simplest solution to needing a server with a GUI.
>
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