When running a server I strongly recommend to use commands as the means of operating your services. Firstly, it makes your system lighter, secondly it poses less system vunlerabilities and instabilities. But of course if you seek to make your life a bit easier, I propose to install the lightest GU interface possible. In our case it is going to be Lubuntu-Core

Step 1 – Install Tasksel

Tasksel allows to install different Desktop environments. Let us install it on our server. $ sudo apt-get install tasksel  Step 2 – List all available environments$ tasksel –list-task

here you will see all the possible environments. For the purpose of this tutorial we choose Lubuntu-Core

Step 3 – Lubuntu – Core Installation

$ sudo tasksel install lubuntu-core

Step 4 – Start the new desktop environment

In order to start the service please type the following command:

$ sudo service light_dm start

Step 5 – Reboot the server

$ reboot -f

After reboot you will land on Login screen with graphical interface