Ubuntu linux installation problem

sankviju · 10-16-2006, 06:01 AM

Hai,

I have installed ubntu linux on my system but when i have installed it directly it is going to the command line mode.But i want to set the GUI mode as my default mode.Any body have any idea about this .

Please reply

Regards

Vijesh

ariebs · 10-16-2006, 07:16 AM

Did you install the Workstation or Server version of Ubuntu? The server version does not install X windows, IIRC.

/andy

sankviju · 10-17-2006, 12:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ariebs

Did you install the Workstation or Server version of Ubuntu? The server version does not install X windows, IIRC.

/andy

Thank u very much for the information.I got the Cd from ubuntu itself via online and i have installed that Cd.

Somebody told me to use

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

Will it work.Please reply

Regards

Vijesh

ariebs · 10-17-2006, 07:00 AM

There are 2 different CDs available from Ubuntu: the Desktop CD and the Server Install CD.

It sounds like you probably down-loaded and installed the Server Install CD.

However, the suggestion to install "ubuntu-desktop" sounds like a good one. (If you prefer KDE, install "kubuntu-desktop" instead.)

The only disadvantage to installing one of the "-desktop" packages, instead of fetching and installing the Desktop CD, is that you may have a bit of server software that you don't want, taking up space.

Good luck!
/andy

matthewg42 · 10-17-2006, 07:35 AM

To help diagnose the problem, please do these commands in a terminal and post the results here:

Code:

cat /etc/X11/default-display-manager
ls -l $(which kdm) $(which gdm)
dpkg --list gdm kdm
grep -e '^(EE' -e '-->Device' /var/log/Xorg.0.log