Is there a way to install gnome, kde or any other X interface on an Amazon Linux System?
amazon-ec2, amazon-web-services, linux
Solution
No, You cannot install X on amazon Linux. amazon Linux is meant for Server roles and hence X related packages are not available in the repo of amazon Linux.
You need to explore Ubuntu/RHEL or some other flavour of Linux if you need X. OR you can hack your own way of compiling X on Amazon Linux.
Problem
I am using AWS Linux for our server systems. I would like to get a desktop session there to make it easier to do certain desktop tasks such as manual testing and configuration of those servers. Is there a way to do that? My system is a default AWS Linux 2 system and the version information looks like this: ``` # uname -a Linux ip-172-31-0-160.us-east-2.compute.internal 4.14.243-185.433.amzn2.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Aug 9 05:55:52 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux # echo `cat /etc/*release | grep "NAME\|VERSION"` NAME="Amazon Linux" VERSION="2" VERSION_ID="2" PRETTY_NAME="Amazon Linux 2" CPE_NAME="cpe:2.3:o:amazon:amazon_linux:2" ```