Installing FontForge on Ubuntu 14.04 SERVER

I've tried installing FontForge both via apt-get and from source (followed instructions here: https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/blob/master/INSTALL-git.md). In both cases I receive the following output when I run execute FontForge (output below is for the version compiled from latest source).

ubuntu@ip-10-113-180-24:~$ fontforge 
Copyright (c) 2000-2014 by George Williams. See AUTHORS for Contributors.
 License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
 with many parts BSD <http://fontforge.org/license.html>. Please read LICENSE.
 Based on sources from 11:18 UTC  9-Mar-2016-ML-D.
 Based on source from git with hash: a61bf687200fd87c2da5e9d172cedb8c19093e66
no xdefs_filename!
TESTING: getPixmapDir:/usr/local/share/fontforge/pixmaps
TESTING: getShareDir:/usr/local/share/fontforge
TESTING: GResourceProgramDir:/usr/local/bin
trying default theme:/usr/local/share/fontforge/pixmaps/resources
Could not open screen.

Does FontForge even work on Ubuntu Server? Does it require X11 to work? I installed a windowing server by following instructions at the link below but that didn't help either: https://askubuntu.com/questions/213678/how-to-install-x11-xorg

Any ideas? Has no one installed FontForge on a Ubuntu Server before?