Commands for Installing Unity on Ubuntu Minimal Desktop

Question

I want to know what to put in the terminal to install Unity DE on Ubuntu 11.10 minimal. For example.Sudo apt-get install (whatever goes here) Including the dependencies.

Solution 1

This answer is for older (before 17.10) versions of Ubuntu. See the answer by Gravity10 for later versions.

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This will give you a more "minimal" install. apt-get default behaviour is to install all recommended packages.

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

Solution 2

For Ubuntu 18.04+

Assuming that you went with Ubuntu Minimal to minimize your bloatware, you should run

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

This generally keeps all bloatware from installing. Run

sudo apt-get purge [PACKGE-NAME]

on any leftover packages you don't want. From what I've seen, there aren't any packages that really warrant this, but it's useful to know.

Comments

[rockr101]

It will only install the desktop environment? It won't install unnecessary programs?

[Panther]

Define "unnecessary" See also help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/LowMemorySystems

[henry]

I'm aware it is 1.5 years later, but thank you so much for this command, I was googling quite a bit for this. Weeeh.

[Buddy Palumbo]

this will install all the bloatware