Linux – GUI on Amazon Linux AMI

amazon ec2amazon-amigraphical-user-interfacelinuxx11

I have Amazon Linux AMI 2015.09 and i need to use some GUI application on it. When i tried to install desktop environment i found out that there are no any X11 packages on repos.

I tried to use CentOS repos but it's caused conflicts with pre instaled packages.

The way described in this topic is not work because there is no libX11* packages available.

Is there any way to fix it?

Best Answer

Yes, you can compile all of those packages.

Or switch to a different OS and your problem goes away.

https://www.exratione.com/2014/08/do-not-use-amazon-linux/

Maybe this will help. According to these people, it will not be a problem to switch to a new OS.

https://www.quora.com/Can-I-change-AMIs-on-Amazon-EC2-reserved-instances