On 11/03/11 22:07, shawn wilson wrote: > if you want to run x windows apps, you need the x server (i think that's > just xserver-common). and you'll want to look at these in ssh_config: > ForwardX11 no > ForwardX11Trusted yes No you do not need the X server for running X applications remotely. Best solution is tio install applications you want through apt/aptitude and the needed libraries will be installed as dependencies.