installing server and gnome with out garbage

[Eonasdan]

if I install the server platform and then do

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktopit installs all the games and browsers and email clients and lots of other stuff I don't want. How do I install the gui without all of that?

[tgalati4]

apt-cache search minimal

[ghen]

apt-get install xorg gdm gnome-core

Very minimal gnome interface. You get an error once on startup about something small not being installed (wasn't important enough to remember).

[wojox]

Type

sudo aptitude install x-window-system-core gnome-core

Press enter

This installs a scaled down version of Gnome that keeps features to a minimum and saves system resources.

[Eonasdan]

awesome thanks guys. I'll give that I try. I'm using a virtual machine at the moment but we are hoping to install this on an actual server and run some of our hosting from it. An as Windows Server/SQL guys it's going to be a fun ride trying to figure out LAMP. :D

[tgalati4]

When you install server, LAMP is running out of the box. Not much to figure out except adding content and fiddling with a few configuration files.

Learning Linux may take some time though.

[Cheesemill]

apt-get install xorg gdm gnome-coreVery minimal gnome interface. You get an error once on startup about something small not being installed (wasn't important enough to remember).

I always do the following one-liner
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y install xorg && sudo apt-get -y install gdm gnome-core ubuntu-artwork fast-user-switch-applet && sudo shutdown now -rwhenever I want to install a minimal GUI. The error your referring to is due to fast-user-switch-applet being missing.

[Cheesemill]

When you install server, LAMP is running out of the box. Not much to figure out except adding content and fiddling with a few configuration files.

Learning Linux may take some time though.

Only if you choose to install it on the tasksel screen.
I always select the minimum amount of packages possible during install and add LAMP afterwards by doing a:
apt-get install lamp-server^Chances are there are packages that will need upgrading on a clean install so you would end up having to downloaded updated versions of the LAMP stack components anyway.