[ale] FreeNX on Fedora Core 3

Nathan J. Underwood ale1 at cybertechcafe.net
Thu Apr 14 12:03:32 EDT 2005


I had considered this, but haven't because I wasn't sure of the 
implications of having both XFree86 and x.org on the machine.

Dow_Hurst wrote:
> I'm interested in a solution for this type problem too.  Is an answer downloading and compiling XFree86 for the distro your running?  Seems that would be the fix for such a problem.
> Dow
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Nathan J. Underwood" <ale1 at cybertechcafe.net>
> Sent: Apr 14, 2005 10:31 AM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] FreeNX on Fedora Core 3
> 
> I am trying to get FreeNX (server) working on my Fedora Core 3 Linux 
> computer so that I can view it using the NX Client via a MS Windows XP 
> Pro computer.
> 
> I have the following:
>   - Fedore Core 3.  Relatively stock, but anything that wasn't installed 
> via the original media has been installed via yum
>   - I'm trying to follow the howto available at 
> http://fedoranews.com/contributors/rick_stout/freenx/
>   - I downloaded the following RPM's from fedoranews.org
> 	- freenx-0.3.1-0.rh.0.noarch.rpm
> 	- nx-1.4.0-0.rh.4.i386.rpm
> When I try to install them (rpm -Uvh <pkg>), I get the following dependency:
> /* Begin Error */
> error: Failed dependencies:
>          XFree86 is needed by nx-1.4.0-0.rh.4.i386
>          XFree86-tools is needed by nx-1.4.0-0.rh.4.i386
> /* End Error */
> 
> FC3 (as I understand it) was installed with x.org (rather than XFree86). 
>   Can anyone offer a 'next step'?

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