[CentOS-devel] Testers needed: nx (upgrade to the 3.5.0 series) and freenx (SELinux fix)

Tue Oct 25 19:24:44 UTC 2011
Farkas Levente <lfarkas at lfarkas.org>

On 10/25/2011 06:22 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 2:37 AM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote:
> 
>> I did test these, works with selinux fix. It turned to out be a case of
>> virt-install new VM on a remote machine; yum install nx and freenx on
>> this remote machine; install the nx client from nomachine.com - setup it
>> to use GNOME desktop, paste in the client.id_dsa.key and connect.
>>
>> I did haveto yum groupinstall Desktop and X Window System to get the
>> remote GUI to come up. And then I had to install a bunch of fonts to
>> make things look right ( http://www.karan.org/stuff/Screenshot-5.png was
>> what I got without the fonts )
> 
> Thanks for testing.
> 
> I forgot to mention that the selinux fix was needed only for CentOS-6.
> CentOS-5 did not need any adjustment.
> 
> What to include as 'Requires' can be tricky. NX needs a desktop for
> sure but it can be gnome or KDE or even something else. So far, it's
> up to the user to make sure X and a desktop are available when using
> NX.

unfortunately there is no RequiresGroup in rpm:-(
even it'd be useful for me too:-)

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