On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 4:52 PM, Steve D'Aprano <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 02:01 pm, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 12:56 PM, Steve D'Aprano >> <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >>> Remember the context here: we're replying to a thread discussing somebody >>> who is running Ubuntu with a GUI desktop environment. Of course there are >>> *some* Linux systems which don't run a GUI at all, but you can't >>> double-click on files on such systems, and they aren't Ubuntu, so they >>> aren't relevant. >> >> Been a long time since I had an Ubuntu, but is it really the case that >> you can't install Ubuntu without a GUI? > > I mispoke -- I meant something like "they aren't whatever Ububtu GUI the OP > has installed". > > There is, apparently, headless Ubuntu, but it isn't clear to me whether they > install X (or Mir, Wayland or some other alternative) or not. E.g. this: > > https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/ubuntu-gnome-vnc-headless-server/ > > seems to suggest to me that X.org is already installed, I can see X utils > being installed as a recommended package but I couldn't spot X being added as > a dependency. So my *guess* is that even headless Ubuntu server includes an X > server. (Or possibly Mir.)
Or that installing a VNC server automatically installs X11 or equivalent. That's what I'd expect, though it's entirely possible that a headless server still gets certain libraries installed. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list