Wow - Looks like I opened quite a can of worms here.
How I came to be using Mint 15 is a long story, but basically when Ubuntu 10.04 (which I loved) went stale, I started looking at upgrading. Ubuntu 12 was awful, 13 was not much better. I, and several colleagues, despised the interface (Gnome, KDE, didn't matter), especially the loss (or "enhancement") of some very useful simple tools; like Alt-Tab for cycling through windows. Mint/Mate offered the closest look & feel to Ubuntu 10.04, so we started running with it. The fact that I've got 15 is probably bad luck - I started Minting just before its base (Ubuntu 13.04) went stale.
Another fact: The network on which I'd run X2GO is completely private - a mix of perhaps 3 Linux/Windows systems residing on a small submarine. Could not see the wider world even if we wanted to, unless someone figures out how to propagate RF through seawater. So security is not an issue. Originally we looked at XRDB for the display porting, but was directed to X2GO as a better alternative by another colleague. That led to this discussion.
BTW, I did try building X2GO directly from source, per the directions here: http://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/sources:start But that failed miserably.
Given all the options... I'll look into upgrading to Mint 17. This is tricky given the application (losing our primary control system computer for any length of time is a very bad thing), but perhaps this is the best long-term solution.
At the same time - Mike I'll take you up on your offer to build a Debian package for me. I am familiar with Git, of course, but have not built .deb packages.
Thanks All,
- Pete
Hi Peter,
deb packages of X2Go Server are only available for these versions of Linux Mint: Linux Mint 13 (LTS, based on Ubuntu 12.04) Linux Mint 17 (LTS,based on Ubuntu 14.04) Linux Mint 17.1 (LTS, based on Ubuntu 14.04).
I have recently tested tested 13 and 17.
X2Go Server is no longer available for Linux Mint 15 because Linux Mint 15 is based on Ubuntu 13.04. The PPA no longer contains any packages for Ubuntu 13.04 and Linux Mint 13 because Ubuntu 13.04 is no longer supported. (Neither is Linux Mint 15.) Canonical actually removed the Ubuntu 13.04 packages from the PPA.[1]
The packages you are seeing are packages from Ubuntu 13.04's universe repo.
It should be possible to build X2Go Server, and its nx-libs dependencies, on Ubuntu 13.04 / Linux Mint 15. If you know how to use git and how to build a debian package from source, just build these: Currently 4.0.1.18: http://code.x2go.org/gitweb?p=x2goserver.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/build-m... Currently 3.5.0.28: http://code.x2go.org/gitweb?p=nx-libs.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/build-main
If you do not know how to use git or how to build a Debian package from source, then I can build them for you sometime soon.
-Mike#2
[1] http://ppa.launchpad.net/x2go/stable/ubuntu/pool/main/x/x2goserver/