server w/ 'optional' desktop
Antony Gelberg
antony at wayforth.co.uk
Sat Apr 15 17:33:14 UTC 2006
Attila Horvath wrote:
> Hi All
>
> Being (relatively) new to LINUX & UBUNTU, so far EVERYONE been very
> helpful w/ my questions to help me get up and running. Thank you! :-)
>
> After playing around with desktop version, I have a better
> understanding of what I want/need.
>
> I'd like to learn the 'server' environment because I'd like to set up
> a standalone system as a personal web and mail server - for
> starters. That said, I probably need to install the 'server' version
> of UNBUNTU.
>
> I did that once and only afterwards I found out that the server
> install does not include Gnome and other related utilities. I could
> partition my HD and install both but that would require wasting a lot
> of disk space. I only have a 20G HD on my target host! <8-( [The
> machine's 6 years old - at the time it was 'ahead' of it's time!]
>
> Question - if I install the server version which only [seems] to
> provide command line interface, is there any reason I can't
> retroactively install GNOME and other desktop related utilities that I
> can invoke optionally?
Why don't you just install the packages that you need on your standard
install?
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