X is not installed with Ubuntu Server.
- You can turn your server install into a desktop, by apt-get ubuntu-desktop.
- However, perhaps you just want to add the gnome desktop to the server.
1. Verify that the universe and multiverse universes are enabled.
/etc/apt/sources.list
In 8.10 these were uncomment already. If not, uncomment by removing the comment #.
2. Confirm that gdm is not installed:
which gdm
- If nothing is returned it's not installed. If /usr/sbin/gdm is returned, then that is the location of its install.
- To install it, type apt-get install gdm and <enter>. Enter your password when prompted. Click Y to install it.
3. Install the xfs packages.
sudo apt-get install xfs and <enter>. Enter your password when prompted. Click Y to confirm to install it.
Note the xserver-xorg and xfonts-base were already installed.
4. Reboot and system will start with X.
(Note: I received a message that a applet group could not be loaded. Chose remove. Then I used the Add/Remove to add the tools I wanted (e.g. Terminal, Text Edit, Services, etc.)
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