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 Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 6:10 pm Post subject: FC5 - Gnome and VNC Server installation |
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Hi all,
I have a FC5 server hosted on the internet (rack server in a datacentre
in London). The server was setup and configured by our ISP. However it
looks like they only did a very basic installation of FC5. From a SSH
session I installed vnc-server using yum, but when I try and start
vncserver I get the error:
vncserver: couldn't find "xauth" on your PATH.
When I look around for xauth on the server I can't find it (from
looking on our development server in the office its normally located in
/usr/bin/xauth). I'm guessing that the guy who set the server up didn't
install Gnome or KDE.
What's the easiest way to install Gnome via a SSH session?
Thanks in advance
Reuben
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Jack Snodgrass
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| Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 7:57 pm Post subject: Re: FC5 - Gnome and VNC Server installation |
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On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 06:10:06 -0700, reuben wrote:
| Quote: | Hi all,
I have a FC5 server hosted on the internet (rack server in a datacentre
in London). The server was setup and configured by our ISP. However it
looks like they only did a very basic installation of FC5. From a SSH
session I installed vnc-server using yum, but when I try and start
vncserver I get the error:
vncserver: couldn't find "xauth" on your PATH.
When I look around for xauth on the server I can't find it (from
looking on our development server in the office its normally located in
/usr/bin/xauth). I'm guessing that the guy who set the server up didn't
install Gnome or KDE.
What's the easiest way to install Gnome via a SSH session?
Thanks in advance
Reuben
reuben@pslconnect.com
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A couple of thoughts before I give the answer. ;)
I prefer XFCE over Gnome or KDE for remote desktop stuff because
it seems to be less resource intensive.
The ONLY reason I run a GUI on a remote server is so I can run
VMWare Workstation which requires a gui. Otherwise I only use
text mode. GUIs take up resources that the server could put to
better use.
As for installing after the fact... FC4 or maybe FC3.. or
maybe it's always been there and I never saw it before...
lets you do
yum grouplist
to list the 'groups' of software you can install so you can
then do something like
yum groupinstall XFCE
followed by
yum install xfce4-session
will give you a decent GUI to do stuff remotely.
If you want Gnome, then you can do
yum groupinstall GNOME Desktop Environment
to get you started with Gnome.
Finally... you have to modify your .vnc/xinitrc file to start
your new environment... I use this for that file:
#!/bin/sh
if [ -x /usr/bin/xfce4-session ]; then
/usr/bin/xfce4-session &
elif [ -x /usr/bin/gnome-session ]; then
/usr/bin/gnome-session &
else
unset SESSION_MANAGER
exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
fi
wait
jack
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D.A.M. - Mothers Against Dyslexia
see http://www.jacksnodgrass.com for my contact info.
jack - Grapevine/Richardson |
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Guest
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| Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 2:26 pm Post subject: Re: FC5 - Gnome and VNC Server installation |
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Thanks for that Jack.
I used the yum groupinstall to install GNOME.
However, I'm still having problems starting vncserver. I created the
file .vnc/xinitrc as per your details (BTW should this file be called
xstartup?), but I'm still getting the error:
vncserver: couldn't find "xauth" on your PATH.
Any further ideas?
Reuben |
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Some Other Somebody Else
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| Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 3:07 pm Post subject: Re: FC5 - Gnome and VNC Server installation |
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On 6 Jun 2006 02:26:15 -0700, reuben@presence-systems.com wrote:
| Quote: | Thanks for that Jack.
I used the yum groupinstall to install GNOME.
However, I'm still having problems starting vncserver. I created the
file .vnc/xinitrc as per your details (BTW should this file be called
xstartup?), but I'm still getting the error:
vncserver: couldn't find "xauth" on your PATH.
Any further ideas?
Reuben
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Is the xorg-x11-xauth package installed? |
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Guest
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| Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 8:51 pm Post subject: Re: FC5 - Gnome and VNC Server installation |
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I got it working by doing a group install of the X Window System
Had to open up ports 5801 and 5901 on iptables so that I could make the
connection.
Thanks for all your help.
Reuben |
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