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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