A little technical segue…Ubuntu Server Xfce setup

I have planned on setting up an Ubuntu server for a while starting only from the server setup disc.  The last time I tried this I got conflicting information and little help.  Help online seemed to only serve parts of the answers so this time I decided to do a short bit of documentation of my own.  This was done using Ubuntu 8.10.

So after installing the base configuration of server I did the following from the terminal (enter your password each time your challenged for it):

1. sudo apt-get update (gets the list of newest packages)

2. sudo apt-get upgrade (upgrades the system with all of the relevant security patches, etc)

3. sudo apt-get install xfce4 (installs the Xfce v.4 desktop environment)

4. sudo startxfce4

Now your desktop should have been started.  Now I’m working on getting the desktop to auto-load.  I’ll update the rest of this when I finish this and have a few minutes.