How do I install a GUI on my Amazon EC2 instance running Amazon Linux 2?

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Amani shows you how to install a GUI on your Amazon EC2 instance running Amazon Linux 2.

0:00 Introduction
0:27 Overview of the options
1:52 Manual GUI installation
6:00 Connect to the GUI using VNC
6:57 Install a web browser
9:05 Closing

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[nndzwqf]

It's a very rare case, but what if I want to connect to AL2 directly, via Monitor and Keyboard/Mouse, not VNC. In this case I still see terminal/console instead of graphical interface with UI server. Is there a way to fix this?

[SubramanyaRaj]

How do we connect to VNC from Mac system? I couldn't use putty to follow steps for "Connect to the GUI using VNC". Can you help me on this?

[ngonimaphosa]

im getting "the connection was dropped by the server before the session could be established" from tiger vnc what could i be doing wrong?

[roman-saran]

I'm getting amazon-linux-extras not found I also tried in root user

[stevenwalker]

Thanks for the tutorial! A have a little question, Is possible install LXDE in the same way? It's lighter for my PC

[JB-handler]

Funny how outdated the tut is (amazon-linux-extras: command not found)