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/ 3 Years ago, sun, november 21, 2021, 4:28:48
I am using Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS. How can I tell whether it has a graphical user interface installed?
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Look at /usr/share/xsessions/ directory to see if there are any X sessions available on your Ubuntu:
$ ls /usr/share/xsessions/
openbox.desktop
which says I've got "openbox" on my machine, it can be "Unity", "Gnome" or anything else for you. If you get nothing, so nothing has been installed.
Extra step:
You can run something like this on that file to see if its binary really exist on your machine and it's not a leftover file:
file $(grep -Po "(?<=^Exec=).*" /usr/share/xsessions/openbox.desktop)
grep -Po "(?<=^Exec=).*returns something similar to:/usr/bin/openboxfilewill check if that really exist.
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