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I am working with a VirtualBox headless virtual machine (Mininet VM running Ubuntu 20.04) and I want to install a desktop environment, is that possible? if so, how?

Hasan Aga
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  • `sudo apt install ubuntu-desktop` will install the default Ubuntu Desktop (eg. GNOME). You can also install other DEs; eg. `sudo apt install lubuntu-desktop` will install the Lubuntu (LXQt) desktop... (etc.. applies for all [flavors](https://ubuntu.com/download/flavours) too; I just used Lubuntu as example) – guiverc Dec 11 '21 at 10:08
  • @guiverc yes, this answers my question, thank you. – Hasan Aga Dec 11 '21 at 12:10

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the answer is straight forward as @guiverc commented:

sudo apt install ubuntu-desktop will install the default Ubuntu Desktop (eg. GNOME). You can also install other DEs; eg. sudo apt install lubuntu-desktop will install the Lubuntu (LXQt) desktop... (etc.. applies for all flavors too; I just used Lubuntu as example) – guiverc

note: the terminal does not work by default even though there is an app called "terminal" installed, so I used Xterm instead (you can install GNOME terminal using Xterm).

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