How to Install a GUI on Ubuntu Server

[@justingilley5017]

Thank you Tony! Several other tutorials got this working, but they VERY slowly. I hope you keep releasing videos: subscribed!

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Thanks for the sub!

[@XRPSAINT]

Hi Tony, first-time viewer, but THANK you so much. Obviously, I'm a NuBe. I'm trying to get ready for the delivery of my first RippleD Node. I have been a Server Admin for 12 years, but my last interaction with Linux was 11 years ago... :) Anyway, thanks again!

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Sure thing. Good luck Thomas!

[@salvadorginez3246]

Happy New Year Tony! Thanks a lot for this great video. I am trying to install the desktop Display Manager after entering the command: sudo tasksel. However, I got a list of options different from what you have on your screen on minute 2:46 and I see that I do not have on my list the options: Ubuntu Cloud Image and neither Ubuntu Desktop. Here below the options that I have: 1. Debian desktop environnement 2. GNOME 3. Xfce 4. GNOME Flashback 5. KDE Plasma 6. Cinnamon 7. MATE 8. LXDE 9. LXQt 10. web server 11. ssh server 12. laptop Which one do you recommend me to install? Thanks a lot for your precious help man! Very helpful your video

[@Manojkumar-ti9lt]

which one did you use, im facing the same issue?

[@jin-gao]

had the same issue, you can install a package that support frontend: apt install whiptail

[@JohnGreco-t8j]

I used lxqt

[@ctrl-alt-del0]

This is magnificent! I been following Linode's guide on how to setup a vnc server and it failed miserably multiple times. Thanks man!

[@Drone256]

Running tasksel gives me a very different set of choices. I'm on Ubuntu server 20.4. Unbuntu desktop is not an option given by tasksel. Any ideas?

[@photogyulai]

Same here, i guess tasksel may not support ubuntu any more (?)

[@om1701d]

You get this figured out? This didn't work for me either

[@mejdplayzbro2075]

me on deb 11 with this working despite using a diff os

[@قواعدالعمل]

You are really good, very calm and informative . thank you

[@GaetsKrop]

Totally agree

[@MunifTheGreat]

THANK YOU SO MUCH. This is sooooo much easier to do

[@NoLiesInTRUTH]

thanks a lot bro - that was loud and clear..bravo!

[@RezaBox3r]

hi tony. when i use vncserver -list there is no port and display and process seted up. how can i set up them?

[@DanKardell]

Does anyone try to do this in a docker container? When I launch VNC all I get is the terminal window not the GUI

[@GaetsKrop]

Thanks for these videos, you really made my day so much easier.

[@MattMcCullough]

Keep up the good work man. I'm subbed

[@TodayintimeTravel]

a great helpful tutorial for me .Thanks Dear.

[@ap8409]

Not sure why don't see the above options in tasksel. I get a very limited of choices.

[@mountainofpeace]

Hey Tony .. I am unable to connect to tiger vnc-server and it says "Timed out waiting for a response from the computer' . May I know how to fix this ?

[@klonbot1475]

hey do you solved your problem? i have the same problem

[@DarthRayder]

apt install tigervnc-standalone-server tigervnc-xorg-extension tigervnc-viewer

[@nri_raj]

How much RAM and CPU is minimum needed; my VPS has 1core and 1GB 😢

[@jaffaisaac6186]

If you're a complete beginner to soft production then soft is imo the easiest daw that you can get, I started off with it.. If you have a little bit

[@Raza1-j2y]

love you bro, really helped me a lot, you are my shera

[@srmc1974]

same procedure does not work for Ubuntu 24.04, when I login it crashed and force the VNC session to logout, any suggestions? for 22.04 works like a charm, cheers

[@david_kinyua]

Thanks for the video as always. Nice tshirt.

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Thanks David

[@cyberjack]

XRDP is way better for remote viewing .. you can just use normal window remote desktop for connection

[@reecebower9934]

Nice video short clear and concise!

[@N.Cognito]

So if you arent running the vnc server is it essentially running headless, or is the gui still active and using resources?

[@theprintcentre]

Great tutorial as always, what’s is minimum VPS requirement for Ubuntu GUI and what have you used in this Tutorial?

[@Abon963]

what is VPS?

[@AdeshPaul]

​@@Abon963 Virtual Private Server or simply a remote server

[@ShefField-r6c]

Is there any othr alternative to real VNC? can we use MS RDP instead? also does tiger vnc support MS RDP?

[@elton2005]

I follow the step to set Slim & tasksel... but I always not able to get into GUI panel after reboot?? What's going on?

[@PasqualinoDeMarco]

Were you able to solve? Same thing happens to me with ubunutu 22.04

[@PasqualinoDeMarco]

Change version Ubuntu install 20.04 and you will have the solution

[@JustinGeekNerd]

Very cool! I learned a lot in this vid

[@lwa.dev74]

nice work Tony :-)

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@KinpaySolutions]

This is the best explanation

[@showlineerp3623]

you are the best man keep it up

[@achintpanchal3084]

hey tony can u make a video on easyengine wordpress tutorial

[@TheTaikaSoppa]

Do you know why i cant type in firefox browser anything?

[@kittuc4703]

You forgot to tell, if it's a linux instance, we have to allow port in security group's inbound rules.

[@SteveVickAK]

Why are we creating a new user? I did this and the user ended up with a partition on the server and absolutely no space left in the partition.

[@TheTaikaSoppa]

How do i create cyrpted connection with this vnc method?

[@austinkirby2752]

UNABLE TO LOCATE PACKAGE? Im constatnly getting this across multiple packages. I have an EC2 instance ubuntu-jammy-22.04-amd64-server-

[@Bi3liN]

Ive made everything like you, 2 times and still have "Timed out waiting for response from a computer"... can someone help?

[@Bi3liN]

I had firewall on, thats why

[@coeniejvr]

i did this and after desktop everything works besides the internet. i got 2 eth but not connected, when i click connect nothing happens

[@IvanC64]

Outstandingly useful

[@ayseaf]

i can't see anything when i put vncserver -list on my ubuntu server , why

[@MinhTran-tj4wq]

Can this be Ubuntu VM? When I installed it as a VM it’s not running as root. Can I su to root and do this?

[@SomeoneElse6282]

FUCKING LEGEND. FINALLY SOME SHIT THAT WORKS!

[@xoandiaz5878]

When I use sudo reboot, the vnc closes, how do I activate it again?

[@kdhs1988]

I think you are cool.... clean and clear.....

[@j.h.a6254]

Is it ok and safe to leave the vncserver running all the time?

[@rakly347]

Can you instead of a GUI on the server, use RDP? Keep the server headsless but run the GUI apps on the remote client? I know how to use RDP with a GUI server, just wondering if the host actually needs a GUI?

[@baetz2]

The vnc he used IS a kind of RDP. RDP doesn't run apps, it just streams the UI from the remote server to your computer and streams your input back. If he didn't install the GUI, RPD would show him console.

[@Nicotv247]

@Tony, Thanks for this. However I have issues after installation. It's laggy

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Sometimes it can be laggy if there is no GPU

[@arnoldp6525]

This is a cool video, but I have a web hosting server that is headless. Can I install gui on that?

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Yes you can, this video will help you do that

[@andrewmcnulty0]

I keep getting to "preparing to configure network-manager" and it just stops. What am i doing worng here?

[@FfIdd-um5yt]

ssh no tigervncserver '-localhost=1'' failed: 65280 On my terminal it shows this

[@Foolsimsimulate]

thank you so much Tony

[@TonyTeachesTech]

You are very welcome

[@sorinalexandrucirstea1994]

I don't see any reason to not install a GUI on a server for maintenance purpose, so long as you shut it down after you're done setting things up. If you're able to switch between running and not running a desktop environment, then avoiding to install a light weight one makes absolutely zero sense to me. It just seems like a stupid, purist mentality.

[@StarBoy-h3t]

I get what u mean but still they're people that would like to experience multiple interfaces like this unbuntu, Kali, arch etc and wsl is the easiest way

[@HP-oj5zf]

I am getting Black screen , any solutions for that

[@itchey]

both slim and lightdm failed to install. Loads of unable to fetch errors on both.

[@tek87]

You're not connected to the internet, DNS is not setup or your packages are out of date.

[@andrewmcnulty0]

What about if you get to "preparing to configure network-manager" and then it just hangs? ​@@tek87

[@arseneandrouse5554]

I can't manage to open any chromium-based browser I install Did anyone else come across that issue?

[@Miguel-uv1xm]

thaks man, its works

[@nv3796]

Can this be used for running Selenium (say using Python) for a service that needs some Selenium based webscrapping?

[@thepythoncodez]

I'm pretty sure it can

[@axnoro]

For some reason my pi wanted to install debian after hitting tasksel

[@tebogosekgobela114]

Thank you Tony

[@TonyTeachesTech]

You're welcome

[@ydiadi_]

i keep getting couldnt start session , please help

[@keyvans.lavasany.b9776]

clear & useful

[@yourstruly6520]

Connection was refused by computer ?

[@RelationalThrone]

if u killed it how do u start it back up?

[@Spiritual_Sniper]

😮 Larva Lamp 🤩

[@mahdaouimostafa5306]

Subscribed

[@salexkorsan8790]

Sir, i have three server, After Create DNS i want to divert Globally Traffic by Region, Like Asian Visitor divert on asian Server, African Visitor on African Server..... Already i'm Used this Service on Oracle Cloud, it's Very Costlly / Sooooooo i want this Service on my own VPS, will you please tell How do i do this ??

[@DeadEagleUE]

Just use cloudflare?? its free

[@verminvibe]

I am getting timeout when connecting to the server

[@ywueeee]

Can you please make a video where we can do this using the Windows Remote Desktop Mac App? I think it would look much better visually.

[@dtaylor7798]

Terminated This does not work! X connection to :1 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).

[@RandomStuff-wz1wm]

Same

[@sk29]

you updated to complete desktop ubuntu not good idea

[@vasisthakandarpa639]

Thanks

[@VM-yp2rl]

Thanks

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Welcome

[@pascalango497]

Thanks. -- *AYS

[@atetraxx]

kde + RDP imo

[@sebaszwarc]

that video does not help much if you have ubuntu server not in remote.

[@JosephWilliams-v9x]

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[@mpn_family]

Restarting services... Service restarts being deferred: systemctl restart networkd-dispatcher.service systemctl restart unattended-upgrades.service No containers need to be restarted. No user sessions are running outdated binaries. No VM guests are running outdated hypervisor (qemu) binaries on this host.

[@mpn_family]

@Tony please help me for understanding the above issue I'm getting