Switching from Command line to GUI

Daniel Carrera daniel.carrera at zmsl.com
Wed Apr 19 09:54:21 UTC 2006


Angelyn V. Dilim wrote:
> I am new to Ubuntu, I installed Ubuntu and choose the server install after
> the installation is completed and log on I see that its all command line,
> how can I switch so to GUI?

The server install is not supposed to have a GUI. For a server, GUIs are 
a major waste of resources. If you want a GUI you should pick "desktop" 
(which, I think, is the default).

To install a GUI you can probably do this:

sudo aptitude install gnome ubuntu-desktop

Best,
Daniel.
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