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I installed ubuntu 12 server .But after installation am not able to see GUI mode and i getting every time text mode only.Please tell me how to GUI mode or is any thing need to be installed ???
Note I won't installed any Packages during installation.Please help me out
Maybe you are in the wrong runlevel: #3 If so you can start the GUI with
Code:
startx or starxfce4 --with-ck-launch
If you have xfce4 .Otherwise edit /etc/inittab and boot into runlevel #4, GUI, or the one your OS specifices as GUI.
In Debian derivatives, including Ubuntu, runlevels 2-5 are all the same, so changing the runlevel would have no effect. Also please note the booting to runlevel 4 may be valid on Slackware to boot to a GUI, but on Red Hat based distros you would use runlevel 5 for that.
In short: Which runlevels are used for which purpose is distro-specific, your advice doesn't apply to Debian based distros.
Last edited by TobiSGD; 05-16-2013 at 08:07 AM.
Reason: typos, typos everywhere
This page on Psychocats has a great walk through on doing a server install and getting the GUI up and running. Since you did the install you should start further down the page where it shows how to update apt-get and what needs to be installed is outlined as well. Read it through before you follow blindly though
Which desktop environment did you install? If you did something like sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop ...... <additional packages> then you might want to try something like sudo service lightdm start and see what the outcome is.
Though this is just a tentative bit of advice as I am not an expert of linux / ubuntu.
But before installing a desktop environment you should really be thinking, why? As installing a GUI will only increase your surface area to attack from the exploitation of vulnerabilities in the added software that you would be adding to your server.
A lot of people install GUI's to help make it visually easier to transfer files to and from the server and to take remote control of the server. All of these things can be achieved using the command line, such as SSH Services, SCP, PGP etc.
In Debian derivatives, including Ubuntu, runlevels 2-5 are all the same, so changing the runlevel would have no effect. Also please note the booting to runlevel 4 may be valid on Slackware to boot to a GUI, but on Red Hat based distros you would use runlevel 5 for that.
In short: Which runlevels are used for which purpose is distro-specific, your advice doesn't apply to Debian based distros.
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