Commands for Installing Unity on Ubuntu Minimal Desktop
I want to know what to put in the terminal to install Unity DE on Ubuntu 11.10 minimal. For example.Sudo apt-get install (whatever goes here)
Including the dependencies.
Solution 1:
This answer is for older (before 17.10) versions of Ubuntu. See the answer by Gravity10 for later versions.
This will give you a more "minimal" install. apt-get default behaviour is to install all recommended packages.
sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends ubuntu-desktop
Solution 2:
For Ubuntu 18.04+
Assuming that you went with Ubuntu Minimal to minimize your bloatware, you should run
sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends ubuntu-unity-desktop
This generally keeps all bloatware from installing. Run
sudo apt-get purge [PACKGE-NAME]
on any leftover packages you don't want. From what I've seen, there aren't any packages that really warrant this, but it's useful to know.