1) Install desktop Environment
2) Install Webmin
1) Install desktop Environment
First you nee to make sure you have enabled Universe and multiverse repositories in /etc/apt/sources.list file once you have enable you need to use the following command to install GUI
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
The above command will install GNOME desktop
If you wan to install a graphical desktop manager without some of the desktop addons like Evolution and OpenOffice, but continue to use the server flavor kernel use the following command
sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends ubuntu-desktop
If you want to install light weight desktop install xfce using the following command
sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop
If you want to install KDE desktop use the following command
sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop
2) Install Webmin on Ubuntu 12.04 server
You can check here howto install Webmin on Ubuntu 12.04 server
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Installing any desktop on a server will likely reduce stability if you actually run the desktop apps. X/Windows and other GUI libraries like video card drivers usually have this effect.
Whether 12.04 suffers from this same issue is unknown to me, but I suspect it is the case.
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Running ‘sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop’ does not install Gnome.
This command installs the Unity desktop, which is definitely different from Gnome.
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Tried this but got errors about broken packages, couldn’t install e.g. firefox because the software library couldn’t update, teamviewer same thing.
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The article neglects to mention that after a successful ‘apt-get install …’, you need to run ‘startx’ (for ubuntu-desktop) or equivalent.
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MattS: Thanks so much for this so important comment.
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Hey Matt, is there a way we can automate this, or do we have to manually run startx upon boot every time?
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Installed under root. Boots up automatically without any extra configuration.
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Hi, I’m new in these topics, I have a doubt, wich are my advantages of use server version if I’m a software developer ? and … If I have installed a server version, when I install ubuntu-desktop package, my version turns to desktop version or I continue with server version ?
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Ran this…
sudo apt-get install –no-install-recommends ubuntu-desktop
can we set this to not boot the gui by default but retain the ability to “startx” and “stopx”?
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vm player requires vm tool update for linux.
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