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Old 11-09-2004, 02:58 PM   #1
thebnut
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Installing XWindows


Hi,

I know a little about linux... but i'm no master by any means.

I am running a dedicated sever which I have been controlling via ssh. All is going well with that!

However I would like to get some sort of windowing system on to the machine and maybe chuck gnome or something. Obviously vnc will be my means of desktop access.

My question is how though?! I have had failed attempts to install XWindows and i put it down mainly to the fact i really don't know what i should be doing. The machine has RedHat 9 running and I have root access. I don't think it has any form of xwindows installed.

How do i go about doing this guys?

Cheers in advance
 
Old 11-09-2004, 03:16 PM   #2
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Hi and welcome to LQ.

The most conveniant way of installing it would probably be by apt-get or a similar tool. You can probably grab it from freshrpms.net or some similar site.

Oh, and VNC isn't such an "obvious" choice. You can have X use a remote X server for display (meaning your laptop or whatever other system you use), or you could simply enable X forwarding in the sshd_config on the server. Then log in using ssh -X user@host and just type the name of a graphical program to have it displayed locally (on your...say laptop).


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