On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 05:23 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:
On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 22:49 +0100, Kay Diederichs wrote:
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Testing repository .repo file: http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/CentOS-Testing.repo
Packages can be download manually here: http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/testing/i386/RPMS/
I have been using the 32bit CentOS-provided freenx / nx successfully on x86_64 systems. I believe they require nxsetup --purge --uninstall nxsetup after the initial install, but then they work just fine. Now I'd like to update them to the testing ones, using yum. How can I do this - the .repo file in your posting does not work - my $basearch is wrong !? I think yum should have an option to override $basearch, or the i386 packages should somehow be visible in the x86_64 repo.
Clearly I can download the .rpms and run yum or rpm directly, but there ought to be a more elegant way ...
They are both .i386 packages and I could put them in the x86_64 repo ... but I haven't checked that all the dependancies are meet in the other parts of the x86_64 repo.
I will test that now and see if that is the case.
The source from No Machine will not compile on x86_64, or we would have an x86_64 version. Since the source did not work for x86_64, I was concentrating on making that work and I didn't think to try to make the i386 version work on x86_64 :)
For the purposes of testing, could you please manually download them and install ... and if everything i386 required to support NX/FREENX is in the base x86_64 repo already, then when we move these into production, I can also put it into the x86_64 repo too.
I am going to start looking at that aspect of it right now.
OK ... if you haven't manually installed yet, try now with yum.
I validated that the requires are meet and I got it to install on an x86_64 machine OK.
I did not have to rerun nxsetup either ... it worked OK after copying the client key into the NX client on the connecting machine.
Thanks, Johnny Hughes