Tuesday, August 12, 2008

GUI for UBUNTU SERVER EDITION

Its very easy to add GUI for Ubuntu server edition,

U have to follow the following steps for the same,
After installing the Ubuntu server Edition,Login as root by the following command u will get the root previlage,

sudo passwd root

It will ask u the existing password and followed by twice the nex Unix password for the confirmation,

then you have to logout using the command

logout

now u will get the root previlage with
#
prompt,

from there u have to type,

vi /etc/apt/source.list

then uncomment all the lines which ends with "universe",

write it and quit the file

the you have to type the following command,

apt-get install gnome

it will start install the gnome enviornment for you,

followed by

apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
apt-get install KDE

If u needed,

after finishing the download,it will start install the file,

once the same is finished u will get the prompt,

#

from there u type

startx

Now u can see the wonder,Its a GUI OS now,

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