 <p>I have recently installed Chef Server 12 on Ubuntu 14.04.2 and could launch the Chef Management Console too (unfortunately i was stuck with some other issue so couldn't proceed further on this). </p> <p>You may refer this <a href="https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-a-chef-12-configuration-management-system-on-ubuntu-14-04-servers" rel="nofollow">link</a> for detailed steps. </p>