I'm currently installing Desktop and Server right now and the only difference as Jeremy mentioned earlier is the lack of a X GUI for the server installer. I still maintain that no software package is exclusive to one edition of Ubuntu as it certainly wouldn't make sense if there were. Mike Miller wrote: > On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Elvedin Trnjanin wrote: > >> I don't recall any differences between the two with the installer or >> anything that is exclusive to one edition of Ubuntu. The only real >> difference is the default packages you get with the ISO. If you get >> Desktop, you can get all the software for Server. The opposite is >> true as well. >> >> However, I could be wrong. > > > Right, the thing is, you could be wrong, so I want to find someone who > has already done it. This is the closest I've come to what sounds > like a definite answer: > > http://www.ubuntugeek.com/installing-lamp-using-taskeldesktop-edition.html > > > The second way to install is using TASKEL. a TASKEL is a software > application tool that groups some packages into tasks and allows the > user to install the packages from the task.. u can install it from the > terminal by typing. > > sudo taskel install lamp-server > > I guess I'll try that -- using taskel. > > Mike