On my Chromebook with Ubuntu newly added, how can I move to graphical desktop from terminal view?

Did you install a graphical interface? Ubuntu usually comes with a GUI. Well you'll probably need to install xorg and a Desktop Manager. Well the following may get you there... but not got a ubuntu box at the second to test on.

Worth a try. Once it is installed then you should just be able to reboot to get back to the GUI.

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Thanks for speedy reply. I entered your code, but the result was: "sudo: aptitude not found"

There must be a list somewhere of the different commands that sudo will find and execute.

Mmm, try

if that doesn't work to install aptitude then it maybe that your machine isn't connecting to the internet.

You don't actually need to specifically install aptitude. You can use apt-get. To get the desktop up you can run from the terminal.

that assumes that x is already installed tho, I am going by the assumption that it isn't.

I think Ubuntu usually installs the desktop.

Given this forum as context, I'd think it likely he has its default DE ubuntu-desktop installed, but it and his Chromebook are not playing nice together, which would be why he's in a terminal in the first place. 'sudo dpkg-query -l | grep dm' should report if there is a display manager installed. 'sudo ps -A | grep dm' should report if a display manager is supposedly running. Likely the move to be made is diagnose why he's at a terminal. 'sudo apt-get install aptitude inxi; inxi -c0 -v4' and knowing where his Ubuntu installation media came from would be a useful start. If inxi fails, at least show output from 'cat /etc/*lease' and 'lspci -nnk | grep -A4 VGA' so there's something for us to work from.