Since I can't install the x2goserver on RHEL5, I was hoping to at least
install a client that will get some users to RHEL6/Ubuntu machines.
When I try to
yum install x2goclient
I get a message that no x2goclient package exists. Sure enough when I browse the repo, there is no x2goclient package.
I can't even install pyhoca-gui because it needs things from x2goclient (per the README at least).
Anyone have any alternatives? -Kermit Short
Hi Kermit,
On Fr 20 Sep 2013 00:22:28 CEST Kermit Short wrote:
Since I can't install the x2goserver on RHEL5, I was hoping to at
least install a client that will get some users to RHEL6/Ubuntu
machines. When I try to yum install x2goclientI get a message that no x2goclient package exists. Sure enough when
I browse the repo, there is no x2goclient package.I can't even install pyhoca-gui because it needs things from
x2goclient (per the README at least).Anyone have any alternatives? -Kermit Short
X2Go Client sources should build on RHEL5 (they also built on Debian
lenny). Maybe you give it a try?
And: maybe you take over the communication work amongst the RHEL
people and enroll someone into building it for RHEL5, so in future you
can download binary packages to RHEL5.
Thanks+Greets, Mike
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Hi Mike, Thanks for the reply! Under normal circumstances, I'd be happy to take up the cause for RHEL. Unfortunately, we're migrating away from RHEL for the reasons that are being demonstrated here...nobody has intrinsic support for all the RHEL platforms on some of the fancy software that people want to use. Debian/Ubuntu/Mint all do have intrinsic support, and so we're preparing to move to that platform. If we were staying with RHEL, though, I'd certainly take up a role to help out, as I really do love x2go...it's becoming the centerpiece of our network based computing environment, and it's giving me a much needed Remote Desktop option to replace our SunRay equipment, since Oracle is mothballing that technology.
Thanks! -Kermit
On 09/24/2013 02:16 AM, Mike Gabriel wrote:
Hi Kermit,
On Fr 20 Sep 2013 00:22:28 CEST Kermit Short wrote:
Since I can't install the x2goserver on RHEL5, I was hoping to at least install a client that will get some users to RHEL6/Ubuntu machines. When I try to yum install x2goclient
I get a message that no x2goclient package exists. Sure enough when I browse the repo, there is no x2goclient package.
I can't even install pyhoca-gui because it needs things from x2goclient (per the README at least).
Anyone have any alternatives? -Kermit Short
X2Go Client sources should build on RHEL5 (they also built on Debian lenny). Maybe you give it a try?
And: maybe you take over the communication work amongst the RHEL people and enroll someone into building it for RHEL5, so in future you can download binary packages to RHEL5.
Thanks+Greets, Mike
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Hi Kermit,
On Di 24 Sep 2013 18:34:23 CEST Kermit Short wrote:
Thanks for the reply! Under normal circumstances, I'd be happyto take up the cause for RHEL. Unfortunately, we're migrating away
from RHEL for the reasons that are being demonstrated here...nobody
has intrinsic support for all the RHEL platforms on some of the
fancy software that people want to use. Debian/Ubuntu/Mint all do
have intrinsic support, and so we're preparing to move to that
platform. If we were staying with RHEL, though, I'd certainly take
up a role to help out, as I really do love x2go...it's becoming the
centerpiece of our network based computing environment, and it's
giving me a much needed Remote Desktop option to replace our SunRay
equipment, since Oracle is mothballing that technology.
That is good to hear!!! Please note that we can need any support you
would be willing to give. May it be man power or contracted
consultancy. My request was not bound to you being on RHEL5. I
actually would love to see some developers step forward to join in.
Any help needed will be provided.
With Linux Mint, please be warned that at the time being X2Go users
can cross-access their desktops due to a severe security leak in
current Linux Mint (Olivia that is, I guess).
See X2Go issue #287 [1].
Thanks, Mike
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On 9/24/2013 10:34 AM, Kermit Short wrote:
Hi Mike, Thanks for the reply! Under normal circumstances, I'd be happy to take up the cause for RHEL. Unfortunately, we're migrating away from RHEL for the reasons that are being demonstrated here...nobody has intrinsic support for all the RHEL platforms on some of the fancy software that people want to use. Debian/Ubuntu/Mint all do have intrinsic support, and so we're preparing to move to that platform. If we were staying with RHEL, though, I'd certainly take up a role to help out, as I really do love x2go...it's becoming the centerpiece of our network based computing environment, and it's giving me a much needed Remote Desktop option to replace our SunRay equipment, since Oracle is mothballing that technology.
Thanks! -Kermit
I'm not sure what the definition of "fancy" is here, but yeah RHEL is not "cutting edge".
FWIW - I am working on getting X2Go into EPEL6 (hitting a bug in RHEL6 that is preventing me from building nx-libs at the moment). Wasn't going to pursue EL5 since I don't use that anymore, but it wouldn't take much more to build for EL5 is someone was interested.
- Orion
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Orion- Any and all X2Go support in the EPEL for RHEL 5 and 6 would be greatly appreciated. As I mentioned, we are planning on moving away from RHEL, but we will be saddled with various RHEL systems for at least the next 12 months. Having the ability to run X2Go on those systems straight out of EPEL would save me from rebuilding some 15 systems...literally months of productivity and time would be saved. I have not attempted a build form source on any test systems, but the OpenSUSE repo packages didn't work either on my test systems nor on the production compute systems (the latter being obviously far more complex). This would also remove a mandatory dependency on SunRay, and we can start deploying IGEL thin client alternatives...so essentially, this would have a major positive impact on our day to day operations that I wasn't planning on having. If there's anything I can do to help you out, please let me know! -Kermit Short
On Wed, 2013-09-25 at 04:32 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
On 9/24/2013 10:34 AM, Kermit Short wrote:
Hi Mike, Thanks for the reply! Under normal circumstances, I'd be happy to take up the cause for RHEL. Unfortunately, we're migrating away from RHEL for the reasons that are being demonstrated here...nobody has intrinsic support for all the RHEL platforms on some of the fancy software that people want to use. Debian/Ubuntu/Mint all do have intrinsic support, and so we're preparing to move to that platform. If we were staying with RHEL, though, I'd certainly take up a role to help out, as I really do love x2go...it's becoming the centerpiece of our network based computing environment, and it's giving me a much needed Remote Desktop option to replace our SunRay equipment, since Oracle is mothballing that technology.
Thanks! -Kermit
I'm not sure what the definition of "fancy" is here, but yeah RHEL is not "cutting edge".
FWIW - I am working on getting X2Go into EPEL6 (hitting a bug in RHEL6 that is preventing me from building nx-libs at the moment). Wasn't going to pursue EL5 since I don't use that anymore, but it wouldn't take much more to build for EL5 is someone was interested.
- Orion
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Short, Kermit <k_short@lanl.gov> wrote:
Orion- Any and all X2Go support in the EPEL for RHEL 5 and 6 would be greatly appreciated. As I mentioned, we are planning on moving away from RHEL, but we will be saddled with various RHEL systems for at least the next 12 months. Having the ability to run X2Go on those systems straight out of EPEL would save me from rebuilding some 15 systems...literally months of productivity and time would be saved. I have not attempted a build form source on any test systems, but the OpenSUSE repo packages didn't work either on my test systems nor on the production compute systems (the latter being obviously far more complex). This would also remove a mandatory dependency on SunRay, and we can start deploying IGEL thin client alternatives...so essentially, this would have a major positive impact on our day to day operations that I wasn't planning on having. If there's anything I can do to help you out, please let me know!
Wouldn't the older but still working freenx from EPEL and the free NX client work on your RHEL systems? Will there be any conflict between freenx and x2go rpms, and can you run both servers on the same host?
-- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com
Admittedly, I haven't tested it. I have read that NoMachine and X2Go are incompatible, but I haven't tested X2Go with the older FreeNX implementation. I'll test it next week and post my results here on the list. As we've already got a few Ubuntu and RHEL6 systems up and running on X2Go, I'd prefer to run X2Go on RHEL5 as well, but getting anything working on RHEL5 as FreeNX would be wonderful.
-Kermit Short
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On Wed, 2013-09-25 at 13:25 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Short, Kermit <k_short@lanl.gov> wrote:
Orion- Any and all X2Go support in the EPEL for RHEL 5 and 6 would be greatly appreciated. As I mentioned, we are planning on moving away from RHEL, but we will be saddled with various RHEL systems for at least the next 12 months. Having the ability to run X2Go on those systems straight out of EPEL would save me from rebuilding some 15 systems...literally months of productivity and time would be saved. I have not attempted a build form source on any test systems, but the OpenSUSE repo packages didn't work either on my test systems nor on the production compute systems (the latter being obviously far more complex). This would also remove a mandatory dependency on SunRay, and we can start deploying IGEL thin client alternatives...so essentially, this would have a major positive impact on our day to day operations that I wasn't planning on having. If there's anything I can do to help you out, please let me know!
Wouldn't the older but still working freenx from EPEL and the free NX client work on your RHEL systems? Will there be any conflict between freenx and x2go rpms, and can you run both servers on the same host?
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Short, Kermit <k_short@lanl.gov> wrote:
Admittedly, I haven't tested it. I have read that NoMachine and X2Go are incompatible, but I haven't tested X2Go with the older FreeNX implementation. I'll test it next week and post my results here on the list. As we've already got a few Ubuntu and RHEL6 systems up and running on X2Go, I'd prefer to run X2Go on RHEL5 as well, but getting anything working on RHEL5 as FreeNX would be wonderful.
Don't know about mix/match with X2Go - but I've used the freenx server on CentOS5/6 which should be identical to RHEL for years with the windows and mac versions of th NX clients without much trouble. Except that the old mac NX client is a powerpc binary that no longer runs under OSX mountain lion, and the new version is unstable.
-- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com
Hi,
On Mi 25 Sep 2013 22:15:49 CEST "Short, Kermit" wrote:
Admittedly, I haven't tested it. I have read that NoMachine and X2Go are incompatible, but I haven't tested X2Go with the older FreeNX
On Debian / Ubuntu we aim at allowing parallel installation of FreeNX
and X2Go. Only constraint: make sure that nxagent is installed from
the X2Go repos.
implementation. I'll test it next week and post my results here on the list. As we've already got a few Ubuntu and RHEL6 systems up and running on X2Go, I'd prefer to run X2Go on RHEL5 as well, but getting anything working on RHEL5 as FreeNX would be wonderful.
Build X2Go Client from source for RHEL. (make && sudo make install).
Greets, Mike
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