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Old 04-05-2007, 11:21 AM   #1
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Please make this a good experience


I just complete the install of Ubuntu server edition. I did the sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop. It downloaded a bunch of stuff, now how do I get to somesort of desktop, so that I could set accounts and things of that kind

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I just complete the install of Ubuntu server edition. I did the sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop. It downloaded a bunch of stuff, now how do I get to somesort of desktop, so that I could set accounts and things of that kind

Daniel
Create a user account, if you already have one, log in via the command prompt and type: startx

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