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I have a VPS package with Ubuntu 8.10 server (I guess so) installed.

What I want is this: I need to 'see' what I'm doing. So a GUI is pretty much of essence. My end aim is to run a a Windows application inside the Ubuntu environment. The application will be online 24 hours, doing automatic forex trades.

Now I figured that first of all I need to install Ubuntu desktop, so I ran

Code:

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

I'm not sure if I need to install Gnome, so I did it anyway:

Code:

sudo apt-get install gdm

After that I tried starting the GUI by typing startx but it ended up with error, something like unable to connect to X server and no such file. Things like that.

Now I reinstalled everything, including Ubuntu server, from scratch to start anew. My VPS is not for hosting purposes so I don't mind having a GUI, preferably something like a remote desktop to enable me to 'see' everything clearly. Maybe even make it into a VNC. Thanks for all your help :)