<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 8:57 PM, Rob Beard <<a href="mailto:rob@esdelle.co.uk">rob@esdelle.co.uk</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi folks, I'm in the process of building up an old PC to use as a basic Ubuntu box at a remote site (to replace a bodge up job of a VMWare virtual machine).  Now I was wondering, is it possible to install the Gnome or even XFCE on top of the server installation, and if so what packages do I need? I'm not looking for the entire desktop (OpenOffice etc), I just want at most a Terminal, Firefox browser and Remote Desktop viewer.  I was hoping to use FreeNX to connect to the machine too.  Anyone know the best way of doing this? Ta, Rob </blockquote><div> There was a thread here about installing Gnome on Dapper Server... <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=186298">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=186298</a> I've not followed that particular example but have I tried Nomachine NX to do something similar in the past. Chris </div></div>