{"id":371,"date":"2025-10-29T09:31:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T09:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ltzs.us\/?p=371"},"modified":"2025-10-29T09:31:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T09:31:33","slug":"set-up-vps-on-oracle-with-vnc-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.ltzs.us\/?p=371","title":{"rendered":"Set up VPS on Oracle with VNC access"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Install lubuntu<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:#fcb900\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><code>sudo apt install --no-install-recommends lubuntu-desktop<\/code><\/mark> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Install Tigervnc<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:#fcb900\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><code>sudo apt install tigervnc-standalone-server tigervnc-xorg-extension<\/code><\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>vncpasswd to choose a password<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:#fcb900\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><code>sudo nano ~\/.vnc\/xstartup<\/code><\/mark> to start lxqt once vncserver is started<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-prismatic-blocks\"><code class=\"language-\">#!\/bin\/bash\nunset SESSION_MANAGER\nunset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS\nexec startlxqt<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:#fcb900\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><code>sudo nano \/lib\/system\/system\/tigervncserver@.service<\/code><\/mark> and replace what&#8217;s in there with<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-prismatic-blocks\"><code class=\"language-\">[Unit]\nDescription=Start TightVNC server at startup\nAfter=syslog.target network.target\n\n[Service]\nType=forking\nUser=ubuntu\nGroup=ubuntu\nWorkingDirectory=\/home\/ubuntu\n\nPIDFile=\/home\/ubuntu\/.vnc\/%H:%i.pid\nExecStartPre=-\/usr\/bin\/vncserver -kill :%i &gt; \/dev\/null 2&gt;&amp;1\nExecStart=\/usr\/bin\/vncserver -depth 16 -geometry 1680x1050 -localhost :%i\nExecStop=\/usr\/bin\/vncserver -kill :%i\n\n[Install]\nWantedBy=multi-user.target<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:#fcb900\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><code>sudo systemctl daemon-reload<\/code><\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:#fcb900\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><code>sudo systemctl enable tigervncserver@1.service<\/code><\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On host machine, establish ssh tunnel to forward traffic to 5901 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:#fcb900\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><code>ssh -L 5901:127.0.0.1:5901 -N -f -l ubuntu &lt;ipaddress&gt;<\/code><\/mark><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Install lubuntu sudo apt install &#8211;no-install-recommends lubuntu-desktop Install Tigervnc sudo apt install tigervnc-standalone-server tigervnc-xorg-extension vncpasswd to choose a password sudo nano ~\/.vnc\/xstartup to start lxqt once vncserver is started sudo nano \/lib\/system\/system\/tigervncserver@.service and replace what&#8217;s in there with sudo systemctl daemon-reload sudo systemctl enable tigervncserver@1.service On host machine, establish ssh tunnel to forward traffic to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ltzs.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ltzs.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ltzs.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ltzs.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ltzs.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ltzs.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":372,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ltzs.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions\/372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ltzs.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ltzs.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ltzs.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}