Installed Ubuntu 13.04 on a Dell laptop I had laying around. Install goes well but when I'm done, I only get a command line, no GUI at all. Tried several versions, tried 32 vs 64 bit all give me the same result. Any ideas on what to do/try?
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1What ISO have you downloaded?– MitchJun 27, 2013 at 14:23
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A command line qualifies as a UI, you mean a GUI. Edited your question.– AlvarJun 27, 2013 at 14:28
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2Could it be you installed the server version?– Bart.aJun 27, 2013 at 14:28
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1sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop– dlinJun 27, 2013 at 16:39
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Few things I would make sure of.
- Check the name of that ISO file you downloaded and make sure it has "Desktop" in there somewhere.
- How old is the laptop? If it's too old, Unity won't run on it.
- If you want to try and install Unity anyway,
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
- If you can't use Unity with Ubuntu, either try a different distribution or install a different desktop environment. See here for a list/comparison of desktop environments for Linux.
Good luck!
EDIT: If you want to remove Unity, see this answer.
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Wow, thanks for all the comments. Bear with me, while I have over 20 years of dev experience, I'm a Linux noob and I'm helping my son set up Ubuntu at my suggestion. Clarification, yes the GUI is missing technically command line is a ui. I ran sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop (first had to sudo apt-get update). Took it about 20 minutes but didn't see any errors in the install. How do I run the GUI now? I have run Ubuntu before, even installed it before, but I've never seen this. Jun 27, 2013 at 20:55
Ok,
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
sudo shutdown -r now
Worked! Not sure what he did wrong, would you suspect he downloaded the server even though I warned him? Again, great community here and thank you for your help.
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glad you solved the problem! you should mark your answer as the accepted answer (check the checkmark below the up/down votes) so other visitors to the site know that this worked.– amcJun 28, 2013 at 1:22
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Next time you run across something like this.. Just download the desktop version and re-install.. That will be much faster then updating and installing all desktop packages. And there are a couple of differences between server and desktop, pre-installed package wise that is..– Bart.aJun 28, 2013 at 5:46