I want to know what to put in the terminal to install Unity DE on Ubuntu 11.10 minimal. For example.Sudo apt-get install (whatever goes here)
Including the dependencies.
3 Answers
This answer is for older (before 17.10) versions of Ubuntu. See the answer by Gravity10 for later versions.
This will give you a more "minimal" install. apt-get default behaviour is to install all recommended packages.
sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends ubuntu-desktop
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I'm aware it is 1.5 years later, but thank you so much for this command, I was googling quite a bit for this. Weeeh.– henryJan 17, 2014 at 10:36
For Ubuntu 18.04+
Assuming that you went with Ubuntu Minimal to minimize your bloatware, you should run
sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends ubuntu-unity-desktop
This generally keeps all bloatware from installing. Run
sudo apt-get purge [PACKGE-NAME]
on any leftover packages you don't want. From what I've seen, there aren't any packages that really warrant this, but it's useful to know.
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
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1It will only install the desktop environment? It won't install unnecessary programs?– rockr101Mar 2, 2012 at 19:53
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2Define "unnecessary" See also help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/LowMemorySystems– PantherMar 2, 2012 at 22:00
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