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Dims
Asked: 2016-09-11 14:31:39 +0800 CST

How to remove GUI on Ubuntu Server 16.04?

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I wan't command line only server machine. So, I wish to remover GUI from server, which was installed automatically during upgrade.

Simultaneously, I don't want to remove X because I still wish to be able to run X Window applications on VNC or XServer.

How to do that?

UPDATE

sudo apt-get remove ubuntustudio-desktop

didn't help

UPDATE 2

Changing

#GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash console=tty1"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="text"

in etc/default/grub didn't help (it only affected graphics during boot phase)

UPDATE 3

Changing to

env DEFAULT_RUNLEVEL=3

in /etc/init/rc-sysinit.conf didn't help.

UPDATE 4

$ ls /usr/share/xsessions
ubuntustudio.desktop  xfce.desktop

UPDATE 5

Adding "manual" to lightdm.override

$ cat /etc/init/lightdm.override
manual

didn't help, although stopping lightdm service 

sudo service lightdm stop

closes desktop. How to make this service never run?

UPDATE 6

$ sudo update-rc.d lightdm disable
insserv: warning: current start runlevel(s) (empty) of script `lightdm' overrides LSB defaults (2 3 4 5).
insserv: warning: current stop runlevel(s) (0 1 2 3 4 5 6) of script `lightdm' overrides LSB defaults (0 1 6).

didn't help

SOLUTION

systemctl disable lightdm.service

helped, thanks @steeldriver

16.04

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    From the tested comments discussion this is done use systemd disable argument:

    $ systemctl disable lightdm.service
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