[X2Go-User] Upgrading to nx-libs 3.5.99.1

[Robert Dinse]

      I will attempt to install and give the errors later today, I am not awake
enought to be messing with dangerous equipment just yet.

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On Mon, 19 Sep 2016, Mike DePaulo wrote:

> Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 08:44:54 -0400
> From: Mike DePaulo <mikedep333 at gmail.com>
> To: Robert Dinse <nanook at eskimo.com>,
>     Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel at das-netzwerkteam.de>
> Cc: "x2go-user at lists.x2go.org" <x2go-user at lists.x2go.org>
> Subject: Re: Upgrading to nx-libs 3.5.99.1
> 
> 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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