[ale] FreeNX on Fedora Core 3

[Nathan J. Underwood]

Giving this a shot now, will advise.

Mike Murphy wrote:
> well, you could try to rpm -U --nodeps it. I suspect that like a lot of 
> other stuff, the libraries, etc. it needs are there just like they would 
> be with XFree.
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> On 04/14/2005 11:28 AM, 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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