How to install desktop environment in Ubuntu

Hi. In my previous post i gave you some tutorial about Floating Social Sharing Gadget for blog.
And today its not about blogging but those who use blog/website for download stuffs it ll be useful to them.

What is that?

Oh yeah its about installing Desktop Environment in Ubuntu Vps. This is my experience and i searched a over and over and learned some basic and installing this desktop environment.

I prefer you to chose lite weight desktop package so that it ll run faster in low Ram systems

Ok I will show you how to install it using terminal window..

Things Needed

Putty download here

VNC Get here

Lets Move to Next Stept..

Step 1. Open Putty and login to ur vps in GUI with root password
After Successful Login enter these commands one by one

Commands

It delete unwanted programs installed on ur vps

apt-get purge apache2* bind9* samba*

It updates the Older version apps.
When asking for confirmation Press "Y" to confirm

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

This ll installs nano editor, it ll be useful for Us

apt-get install nano

This command installs the light server on our vps

apt-get install xorg lxde-core tightvncserver

Creating a user access to desktop.
It will ask to enter password so simply enter twice which you remembers

tightvncserver :1

This command kills the background running process

tightvncserver -kill :1

Open nano editor using this command

nano ~/.vnc/xstartup

and paste these two lines,save & exit

lxterminal &
/usr/bin/lxsession -s LXDE &

Now reboot the system "reboot"
Connect it again using putty
And Enter this final command

vncserver :1 -geometry 1024x768 -depth 16 -pixelformat rgb565

And we have successfully installed the desktop environment in Ubuntu Vps

Now its time to connect to desktop environmet so install and open the vnc and enter ur ip with vnc server 1