[X2Go-User] No RHEL5 x2goclient?

[Short, Kermit]

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
>