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enter image description hereI have an old desktop(2010) which has certain limitations - no boot possible from USB or DVD...so i need to go with mini.iso of ubuntu 14.0.4 and then installed ubuntu along side Windows 10. This desktop has 7 GB of RAM, dual core processor(AMD Athlon X2), 256 MB Graphics card and around 1.7 TB of hard drive...overall good configuration to run Ubuntu into Xwindows mode(default Ubuntu Desktop). How i can upgrade to the Ubuntu Desktop 14.0.4 or Ubuntu Desktop 15.x? What i am seeing is a very basic CLI kind of interface after using this mini.iso....Moreover my keyboard is not fully mapped it seems...how to fix that?

Bottomline i need to get into the XWindows mode(default ubuntu Desktop) and then use this as a regular Ubuntu Desktop system. CLI is very limited according to me.

Found some other issues with mini.iso installation - because it's more like a command line installation....good amount of manual stuff(selection of packages etc... required on my side)...Keyboard layout was wrongly set..and some other issues. I am talking about mini.iso which has Ubuntu Desktop 64 bit image. Desktop should have the XWindows kind of interface rather than just CLI.

Ashu
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  • Which Ubuntu flavour did you install? Was it a "server" release (no GUI by default) or one of the desktop releases (with GUI by default)? – David Foerster Jan 03 '16 at 09:27
  • Desktop. But finally i am able to overcome this issue...now i have a working Ubuntu Desktop 14.0.4 with Unity and that's what i wanted. – Ashu Jan 03 '16 at 19:19
  • To voters: please re-open this question. OP has issues running the graphical user interface on Ubuntu Desktop not on Ubuntu Server. Considering their last comment, we should then close the question as off topic because it's now irreproducable. – David Foerster Jan 04 '16 at 08:57

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Just run sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop and wait for the installation. Shouldn't take very long.

Eduardo Cola
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Thanks Eduardo Cola for your response. I re-run the mini.iso installation in rescue mode(all the steps in the same way and this time i choose to pick up the Keyboard layout as US-EN...to fix my keyboard and this time selected the right packages... apart from ubuntu-desktop - i need to get the basic essential packages also....had some trouble with the GNome Desktop and finally switched to unity Desktop. All issues seems to be resolved. I had a very constraint desktop but finally able to overcome all the issues...has a working Ubuntu Desktop now.

Ashu
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