# How to install a GUI on my rpi (need memory!) **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Created:** [October 29, 2016, 11:24am UTC](https://community.volumio.com/t/how-to-install-a-gui-on-my-rpi-need-memory/4573 "2016-10-29T11:24:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Samgeek](https://community.volumio.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Samgeek](https://community.volumio.com/u/Samgeek)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 11:24am UTC](https://community.volumio.com/t/how-to-install-a-gui-on-my-rpi-need-memory/4573/1 "2016-10-29T11:24:43Z")
Hello, I was using my rpi to host my website and I would like to continue to do that. I also wanted to install a GUI to control my pi with VNC. I found a great tutorial to install a GUI on Raspbian Jessie Lite ([raspberrypi.org/forums/view … 6&t=133691](https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=133691)), but it looks like Volumio is using almost all the memory available ! ![](http://i.imgur.com/BvCGHte.jpg) Is this going to be a problem (for both GUI and small web-server) ? If so is there another MPD solution more appropriate to my needs? I was planning to create a (physical) UI for Volumio so I’ld like to stay in this community a little bit longer 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Flo](https://community.volumio.com/user_avatar/community.volumio.com/flo/32/4886_2.png) [@Flo](https://community.volumio.com/u/Flo)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 1:31pm UTC](https://community.volumio.com/t/how-to-install-a-gui-on-my-rpi-need-memory/4573/2 "2016-10-29T13:31:13Z")
[code] \_\_\_ /\_ \ \_\_ \_\_ \_\_ **_//\ \ \_\_ \_\_ \_\_\_ \_\_\_ /\_\ \_\_\_ /\ /\ \ / \_\_`\\ \ \ /\ \/\ \ /' __` \_\_`\/\ \ /__ `\ \ \ \_/ |/\ \L\ \_\ \_\ \ \_\ /\ /\ /\ \ \ /\ \L\ \ \_ **/ \ \ __** //\_ **_\ \__ ** /\ \_\ \_\ \_\ \_\ \_**_/ / **/ /** _/ /__ **/ /** _/ /_//_//_//_//\_\_\_/ ``` Free Audiophile Linux Music Player - Version 2.0 C 2015 Michelangelo Guarise - Volumio Team - Volumio.org ``` Volumio Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by applicable law. flo@aurora:~$ free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 973 797 175 32 91 410 -/+ buffers/cache: 294 678 Swap: 0 0 0 [/code] VNC is running with Mate, runs like a charm. I can remote access my pi, run firefox and more without swapping. ---
**Author:** ![Samgeek](https://community.volumio.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Samgeek](https://community.volumio.com/u/Samgeek)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 1:52pm UTC](https://community.volumio.com/t/how-to-install-a-gui-on-my-rpi-need-memory/4573/3 "2016-10-29T13:52:21Z")
Why do I have more memory used than you without any desktop environment running?! ---
**Author:** ![Flo](https://community.volumio.com/user_avatar/community.volumio.com/flo/32/4886_2.png) [@Flo](https://community.volumio.com/u/Flo)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 1:59pm UTC](https://community.volumio.com/t/how-to-install-a-gui-on-my-rpi-need-memory/4573/4 "2016-10-29T13:59:29Z")
Most of it is cached, I’d say give it a try. worse case rollback 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Samgeek](https://community.volumio.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Samgeek](https://community.volumio.com/u/Samgeek)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 2:41pm UTC](https://community.volumio.com/t/how-to-install-a-gui-on-my-rpi-need-memory/4573/5 "2016-10-29T14:41:16Z")
It seems to work (I installed mate-desktop-environment), let’s see if I can also run Nginx now 😛 ![16-10-29 at 16.25.JPG](https://community.volumio.com/uploads/default/original/2X/e/e68ca5572a64f07cfd80e3968d819707ccece1cd.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![MobeyDuck](https://community.volumio.com/user_avatar/community.volumio.com/mobeyduck/32/25_2.png) [@MobeyDuck](https://community.volumio.com/u/MobeyDuck)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 5:57pm UTC](https://community.volumio.com/t/how-to-install-a-gui-on-my-rpi-need-memory/4573/6 "2016-10-29T17:57:49Z")
Volumio used a ramdisk to decrease the wear of SD cards. That probably is why you see a high ram usage. ---
**Author:** ![volumio](https://community.volumio.com/user_avatar/community.volumio.com/volumio/32/3_2.png) [@volumio](https://community.volumio.com/u/volumio)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 10:00pm UTC](https://community.volumio.com/t/how-to-install-a-gui-on-my-rpi-need-memory/4573/7 "2016-10-29T22:00:15Z")
Yes Volumio2 runs on RAM, therefore on 512MB PIs, you get reallly not much room left for other stuff… Your mileage may vary however… ---
**Author:** ![Samgeek](https://community.volumio.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Samgeek](https://community.volumio.com/u/Samgeek)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 1:23pm UTC](https://community.volumio.com/t/how-to-install-a-gui-on-my-rpi-need-memory/4573/8 "2016-10-31T13:23:51Z")
I’m glad to use a RPI2 🙂 My php-server is running (using nginx) and I can access it by taping localhost on my RPI but on my desktop when I use [192.168.0.12/](http://192.168.0.12/) or my website url it reaches volumio UI. How can I change that please? I think my ideal configuration should be the opposite process (access to volumio UI only from local RPI and my web server using outside network) or at least a subfolder to access to volumio UI ([192.168.0.12/volumio/](http://192.168.0.12/volumio/)) and let base path free. 💡 PS : volumio.local/ doesn’t work on my network. ---
**Author:** ![Samgeek](https://community.volumio.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Samgeek](https://community.volumio.com/u/Samgeek)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 5:16pm UTC](https://community.volumio.com/t/how-to-install-a-gui-on-my-rpi-need-memory/4573/9 "2016-11-01T17:16:15Z")
> [@](#): > > IMPORTANT Do not configure your network manually via SSH, this can lead to issues and malfunctions I’m kind of stuck here 😢