[X2Go-User] Upgrading to nx-libs 3.5.99.1

[Mike DePaulo]

I'm glad to hear about the 1st part. :)

Mike#1, can you comment on the 2 dependencies?

-Mike

On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 1:50 AM, Robert Dinse <nanook at eskimo.com> wrote:
>
>      It mostly worked.  With x2goserver installed I can connect now with my
> x2goclient and screen resizes properly.  Also in Mate,
> System->Preferences->Hardware->Displays now works.
>
>      However, it breaks any of the x2goserver-pyhoca and x2goserver-compat
> can not be installed because of unmet dependencies.  More concerned about
> the compat since some of my customers insist on running antique versions of
> software and getting them to ugprade is like pulling teeth.  Actually,
> pulling teeth is easier.
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> On Mon, 19 Sep 2016, Mike DePaulo wrote:
>
>> Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 00:56:08 -0400
>> From: Mike DePaulo <mikedep333 at gmail.com>
>> To: Robert Dinse <nanook at eskimo.com>
>> Cc: "x2go-user at lists.x2go.org" <x2go-user at lists.x2go.org>
>> Subject: Re: Upgrading to nx-libs 3.5.99.1
>>
>>
>> Hi Robert,
>>
>> 1. I updated the email subject to make it more clear.
>>
>> 2. For those who do not know, this is a reply to Robert's nx-libs
>> 3.5.99.1 upgrade issue as listed in:
>> http://bugs.x2go.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1089
>>
>> 3. Software installer is the wrong tool for the job. "dpkg -i" does
>> not work with apt repos. It also doesn't handle dependency resolution.
>>
>> 4. To add this apt repo on Ubuntu 16.04, you would create a file with
>> a name like this:
>> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nx-libs-beta.list
>> ("nx-libs-beta" can differ. The folder path and the ".list" extension
>> must be the same.)
>> with these contents:
>> deb http://packages.arctica-project.org/ubuntu xenial main
>>
>> You also run this command:
>> wget -qO - http://packages.arctica-project.org/archive.key | sudo apt-key
>> add -
>>
>> 5. To recover your system, I recommend the following:
>> a. Run `apt-get update`
>> b. Run `apt-cache search libnx`
>> c. Uninstall all the libnx packages, such as by running:
>> sudo apt-get purge <package-list>
>> Note that this step (or the next one) will result in x2goclient and
>> x2goserver being uninstalled. That should be OK, see step f.
>> d. Also remove "nxproxy" if it is still installed.
>> e. Add the nx-libs 3.5.99.1 repo from #4.
>> f. Install x2goclient or x2goserver (+ any other client/server
>> packages.) This should pull in nx-libs 3.5.99.1.
>>
>> 6. For those who are wondering why this upgrade issue can occur when
>> using "dpkg -i" on all the nx-libs deb packages, it is because nx-libs
>> 3.6 drops many of the X11 libraries that were part of nx-libs 3.5 in
>> favor of the system's X11 libraries. Thus those library packages no
>> longer exist, and the entire upgrade process needs to involve removing
>> those libraries.
>>
>> -Mike
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 10:12 PM, Robert Dinse <nanook at eskimo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>      I used dpkg -i file, same as the software installer.  I did this
>>> because
>>> the installer blew up and I couldn't see the error.
>>>
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>>> On Sun, 18 Sep 2016, Mike DePaulo wrote:
>>>
>>>> Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2016 20:53:32 -0400
>>>> From: Mike DePaulo <mikedep333 at gmail.com>
>>>> To: Robert Dinse <nanook at eskimo.com>
>>>> Cc: 1089 at bugs.x2go.org, Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel at das-netzwerkteam.de>
>>>> Subject: Re: [X2Go-Dev] Bug#1089: Bug#1089: Bug#1089: x2go Ubuntu 16.04
>>>> and
>>>>     Fedora 24
>>>>
>>>> Robert,
>>>>
>>>> Debian: deb http://packages.arctica-project.org/ubuntu
>>>> {jessie,stretch,sid} main
>>>> Ubuntu: deb http://packages.arctica-project.org/ubuntu {trusty,xenial}
>>>> main
>>>>
>>>> These are apt repos, and they are meant to used that way, not
>>>> installed as downloaded .deb files.
>>>>
>>>> I don't mean to be rude, but could you please start a thread on
>>>> x2go-user for help with installing them and recovering your system?
>>>>
>>>> -Mike
>>>>
>>>
>>
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