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I have very low internet speed in my home. I need to install GUI for Ubuntu server edition without the use of the internet. I have an Ubuntu desktop CD. How do I do this?

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You can follow these steps (but, accordingly to psusi's comment, this only will work with the DVD or Alternate CD versions of Desktop Edition)

[1] First step: add your CD / DVD to the sources list.

  • Option A: Edit the Source.list and comment all the repositories excepting the CD with:

    sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

  • Option B: Use Apt-cdrom

    1. test: sudo apt-cdrom --no-act add
    2. if everything is OK: sudo apt-cdrom add
    3. sudo apt-cdrom ident
    4. sudo apt-cdrom -d "your-cdrom-mount-point" -r

[2] Second step: update with: sudo apt-get update

[3] Third step: install desktop environment

  • Option A (recommended): install a graphical desktop manager without some of the desktop addons like Evolution and OpenOffice, but continue to use the server flavor kernel:

    sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends ubuntu-desktop

  • Option B: install a graphical desktop manager with ALL desktop addons like Evolution and OpenOffice:

    sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

[4] Fourth and final step: restore your source list to the previous state

Uncomment everything you had 'commented' before (if you want, comment CD again) with:

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

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