[X2Go-Dev] X2Go module purposes

[Short, Kermit]

The thin clients we are using are manufactured by a German company named IGEL.  They support NoMachine on their firmware, along with a wide variety of other non FOSS remote access protocols.  We are quite pleased with most aspects of the IGEL device, except for their lack of support for X2Go.

Fortunately, IGEL allows users to create a custom partition, in which they can load anything they desire (or at least can get working themselves).  Obviously, I'm using this feature to load the x2go client.  Their firmware is minimally based on Ubuntu LTS 14.04 32-bit.  While repositories exist for Ubuntu, the IGEL ecosystem doesn't support dpkg, apt-get, or any other packaging mechanism, so I have to hand roll any packages I deploy to their custom partition.  The nice thing about this platform is that once I get it working on one device, we can centrally deploy the x2goclient and custom partition to any other device in our environment.

I had it working reasonably well on an older version of firmware, but things have been upgraded steadily, and I'd like to rebuild for the current versions of IGEL firmware.

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Kermit Short
DCS-ISS


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From: x2go-dev-bounces at lists.x2go.org [x2go-dev-bounces at lists.x2go.org] on behalf of Short, Kermit [k_short at lanl.gov]
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2015 1:29 PM
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Subject: [X2Go-Dev] X2Go module purposes

Greetings!
   I've recently been able to build x2goclient from source.  As I was working through that process, I began to wonder if everything needed to run the client is built with the client.  Obviously there are various nxproxy dependencies, but there are also source trees for other components of x2go.  For example, do I need to build libpam-x2go in order for the x2goclient?  I'm thinking this is more of a server aspect, but I'm not positive.  How about cups-x2go?

   The build I'm doing will be processed into a tarball and installed on various thin client devices, so I want to make sure that I know of every file and library I'll need to build/collect/install.

Thanks!

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Kermit Short, RHCE, RHCVA
Sr. Solutions Architect

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