How to install Unity DE on Ubuntu Server?

Question

linux

I want to install Unity on 18.04. It is in the server version, because if you put it on top of the gnome, a lot of jambs will pop up. I tried already, the ubuntu-unity-desktop package is installed from the command line. Tons of dependencies and voila! But the internet didn't work. More precisely, Network Manager did not see network devices. Although the Internet still worked, from the console version of the system (that is, before installing the shell, the WiFi that was connected to during the installation of the system also worked in the shell itself, but it was not clear how it was managed, because in the Network Manager network no devices).

How to do it step by step, what is missing?

Answer 1

In order not to pull any g ..., you need to install with mini.iso .
Naked system.
At the stage of software selection, do not select anything.
After rebooting, you install ubuntu-unity-desktop and get Ubuntu + LightDM + Unity without any Gnome and Gnome Shell (although Unity will be a Gnome add-on and it will be present in a truncated form).
And in order for Waffle and wired to work, you first check whether the Netplan file was created - 01-netcfg.yaml : And, if the 01-netcfg.yaml file was created during installation, then we execute:
cd /etc/netplan; ls

sudo sed -i -e '6,8d' -e 's/networkd/NetworkManager/' /etc/netplan/01-netcfg.yaml; sudo netplan apply; reboot

or (if the ls output did not give anything - i.e. empty, which means that the file was not created after installation, but this happens), then we simply create this file, but with a different name 01-network-manager-all .yaml and reboot:

echo -e '# Let NetworkManager manage all devices on this system\nnetwork:\n  version: 2\n  renderer: NetworkManager'| sudo tee /etc/netplan/01-network-manager-all.yaml > /dev/null; sudo netplan apply; reboot