New subject: [X2go-User] NX (redistributed) -- x2goagent fully integrated into NX-libs (call for testing)

13 Jan 2012

      Hi all,
recently there has been some noise about X2Go re-working its NX code

base. Indeed some quite interesting things have been going on recently

around NX and X2Go.
During the last weeks we have completely reworked the way we build NX

libraries. This has fixed a lot of instability problems people had

recently (summer/autumn 2011) already.
During this last week we set up the X2Go subproject
,,NX (redistributed)'' (aka nx-libs.git on http://git.x2go.org)
The X2Go project's developers (esp. Mike and Reinhard, supported by

Alex and Heinz) have decided to re-distribute NX sources as one big

tarball that builds with GNU make and contains patches not accepted by

NoMachine themselves. The building of the tarball with GNU make

already works fine, the ,,make install'' still needs more work. John

Williams has agreed to contribute on that (thanks for that!!!).
@John: please note that I have uploaded a new tarball containing the

functionality described below ;-):
http://code.x2go.org/releases/source/nx-libs/nx-libs_3.5.0.5-full.tar.gz
During the last days now, we have achieved something that so far has

hardly been imaginable (at least to me).
We have incorporated three patches into nx-libs.git that allows to

turn NX's nxagent into x2goagent during runtime:
01:

http://code.x2go.org/gitweb?p=nx-libs.git;a=blob;f=debian/patches/200_nxagen...
02:

http://code.x2go.org/gitweb?p=nx-libs.git;a=blob;f=debian/patches/201_nxagen...
03:

http://code.x2go.org/gitweb?p=nx-libs.git;a=blob;f=debian/patches/999_nxagen...
X2Go's agent is now part of NX and is maintained in nx-libs.git on

http://git.x2go.org.
The x2goagent package from now on depends on nxagent (as they are

one). The x2goagent package provides a symbolic link to nxagent, a

separate x2goagent man page and a wrapper script in /usr/bin, nothing

else. If nxagent is executed unter the name of x2goagent, the X2GO

branding gets activated within nxagent.
Also: ,,NX (redistributed)'' is fully FreeNX compliant. Install ,,NX

(redistributed)'' from the X2Go package archives and add FreeNX

(Ubuntu Launchpad) on top of that. FreeNX and X2Go can now again be

installed parallely on the same system. Interesting for migrations or

client diversity.
This step also allows us to finally abandon the following source

projects completely now:
nxcomp.git
nxcompext.git
nxcompshad.git
nxproxy.git
x2goagent.git
See also at the bottom of this page:
http://code.x2go.org/gitweb
As this is esp. a call-out for testing the new packages(!!!!) here are

some short infos on upgrading your X2Go test servers. Packages are

available for Debian squeeze, wheezy, sid and Ubuntu lucid, ...,

precise.
The .deb packages are already available in the X2Go nightly-built

repositories:
http://wiki.x2go.org/wiki:development:nightly-builds?&#nightly-builds_for_ubuntu_gnu_linux
Please note, that x2goagent will not install when running ,,apt-get

upgrade''. Either you have to run ,,apt-get dist-upgrade'' or

explicitly install x2goagent with ,,apt-get install x2goagent''.
light+love
Mike
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