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BhaveshDiwan
Asked: 2012-06-14 05:10:56 +0800 CST

How to get Ubuntu Server installed from Ubuntu Minimal?

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Once I install Ubuntu minimal, then I have option to customize it the way I want.

I can either use it as such with the terminal mode,
Make it ubuntu desktop by apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
Make it kubuntu by apt-get install kubuntu-desktop
Make it Lubuntu by apt-get install lubuntu-desktop
and so on....

One can see a difference with the Ubuntu server version, that during installation it gives option to select

  • SSH Server
  • Tomcat Server
  • LAMP
  • DNS Server , etc

Now I am looking for a way or a command something like apt-get install ubuntu-server
so that I may install ubuntu-minimal and then proceed with the further process of
making it server in one go.

I don't want to install individual components (like components of LAMP or DNS) one by one. I am looking for an automated way similar to the one present in Ubuntu server distribution.

12.04

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    That functionality is provided by tasksel (unsurprisingly, it's in the tasksel package):

    sudo apt-get install tasksel
sudo tasksel

    this will present you with a menu of options, such as:

     [*] OpenSSH server
 [ ] DNS server
 [ ] LAMP server
 [*] Mail server
 [ ] Openstack
 [ ] PostgreSQL database
 [*] Print server

    You should then be able to select the ones you want, and tasksel will handle the package installation.

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