n this article we will show you how to connect from your Windows machine with VNC and use your Ubuntu 14.04 VPS as a Desktop PC.
LEt’s START
First, you will need to log in to your VPS as ROOT via SSH. Once you are in the first thing you need to do is to downloads the package lists from the repositories and ???update??? them to get information on the newest versions of packages and their dependencies.
It will do this for all repositories and PPAs. To do that just type:
apt-get update
The next step/command will actually update all the software on your VPS. So, type:
apt-get upgrade
GNOME GUI INSTALLATION
The Ubuntu itself give you an option to install several Desktop environments (and most of them are already available in Ubuntu repositories). In this tutorial we will install GNOME. To start with the installation just type: