Hello,
I have just been given a VPS to have a play with. It’s got Open SuSE 10.0 installed and I have root and SSH access.
Ideally I’m trying to install a desktop manager (Gnome ideally), so that I can setup something like VNC and using a graphical interface (I assume this is possible?).
Working on the assuming that it is possible I what’s the best way to proceed? Installing YUM to install gnome and a vnc-server?
I found some instructions here, however im not sure if they are accurate:
Bob and the Knowledge Factory / Install VNC in VPS server with Gnome
ideas? Views?
Thanks!
I wish it was a newer version, and I hope they don’t use the standard port 22 for SSH, especially in this event. 
Ideally I’m trying to install a desktop manager (Gnome ideally), so that I can setup something like VNC and using a graphical interface (I assume this is possible?).
It should be, unless the host explicitly prevents or blocks it.
Working on the assuming that it is possible I what’s the best way to proceed? Installing YUM to install gnome and a vnc-server?
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No need to install yum; simply enter “yast” in the terminal, then go to “software management.” Set your search parameters to “groups” (as I recall – that’s an OLD version of Suse!) and look for “Gnome Desktop.”
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Get Gnome installed and working, then start “yast” again and look for VNC server.
(I again warn that Suse 10 hasn’t been around for some years now, and my memory could be fuzzy.)
Well, now that I’ve had a little more coffee, let me correct a rather glaring mistake (oversight) in the above.
I’m so used to network installs, I just assumed that you’d have access to online repositories from which to draw the Gnome packages. In your case, you can’t depend on that, and even if you could, you’re going to have a marvelous time finding old Suse 10 package repositories.
I know some posters get annoyed when this is suggested, but I do recommend that you contact the hosting company and ask (beg) them to update that Suse 10 to Opensuse 11.x. That way, you’ll get nice online repos, the “zypper” command line tool (similar to yum but more powerful), and last, but certainly not least, a host of security and bug fixes. You’re playing with fire exposing a server on Suse 10 to the Internet in 2010.