Install GUI ins Ubuntu Server Rumi, August 25, 2011 First you nee to make sure you have enabled Universe and multiverse repositories in /etc/apt/sources.list file once you have enable you need to use the following command to install GUI sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop The above command will install GNOME desktop If you wan to install a graphical desktop manager without some of the desktop addons like Evolution and OpenOffice, but continue to use the server flavor kernel use the following command sudo aptitude install –without-recommends ubuntu-desktop If you want to install light weight desktop install xfce using the following command sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop If you want to install KDE desktop use the following command sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop Administrations Configurations (Linux)