Hello,

I've been wrestling with this one for a couple of days and I'm chasing my tail. Hoping I can get some help. I'm not a Slack guru, but not a total newbie (or maybe I am...:-)

Trying to make my Slack machine remotely accessible before installing (I hope) virtualbox. Looked around slackbuilds.org and figured I'd try using the script there to install x11vnc. So, downloaded the script and sourcecode and proceeded. All seemed to go well. The script generated the package 'x11vnc-0.9.10-x86_64-1_SBo.tgz' which I installed using 'pkgtool'.

When the installation was apparently complete I 'verified' installation by opening pkgtool, selecting 'Remove' and observing that x11vnc-0.9.10 appeared in the list of packages eligible for removal.

According the the x11vnc website (http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/) the next step is to issue the command on the vnc box: 'x11vnc -display :0'. When I did that I was advised that “bash: x11vnc: command not found”.

Anybody got a quick idea about what I'm doing wrong?

Cheers,
st

Well, look in the file /var/log/packages/x11vnc-0.9.10-x86_64-1_SBo to see where the x11vnc command is installed. If that directory isn't in your PATH environment variable, you'll have to give the full path to the executable.

Thanks for the reply.

Following the suggestion, I issued a 'less /var/log/packages/x11vnc-0.9.10-x86_64-1_SBo' and got this:
<some output omitted>
FILE LIST:
./
usr/
usr/doc/
usr/doc/x11vnc-0.9.10/
usr/doc/x11vnc-0.9.10/x11vnc.SlackBuild
install/
install/slack-desc

Added /usr/doc to my PATH and verified that was successful using 'set | grep PATH'. Still no help. Issued a 'find / -name x11vnc*' from root and got this:

root@petraeus:/# find / -name x11vnc*
/tmp/x11vnc-0.9.10-x86_64-1_SBo.tgz
/tmp/SBo/package-x11vnc/usr/doc/x11vnc-0.9.10
/tmp/SBo/package-x11vnc/usr/doc/x11vnc-0.9.10/x11vnc.SlackBuild
/var/log/packages/x11vnc-0.9.10-x86_64-1_SBo
/xvncbuild/x11vnc
/xvncbuild/x11vnc/x11vnc.info
/xvncbuild/x11vnc/x11vnc.SlackBuild
/xvncbuild/x11vnc.tar.gz
/root/x11vnc-0.9.10.tar.gz
/root/x11vnc.tar.gz
/usr/doc/x11vnc-0.9.10
/usr/doc/x11vnc-0.9.10/x11vnc.SlackBuild

Added /xnvcbuild and /xvncbuild/x11vnc to my PATH and verified it was there as follows:

root@petraeus:/# set | grep xvncbuild
OLDPWD=/xvncbuild
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/doc:/xvncbuild:/xvncbuild/x11vnc
PWD=/xvncbuild/x11vnc

Still, when I issue the command x11vnc -display :0, I get

root@petraeus:/xvncbuild/x11vnc# x11vnc -display :0
bash: x11vnc: command not found

How can I verify the build process worked correctly?

It is quite rare for a package to install the main executable in anything other than a directory named "bin" or "sbin". I'd say that your slackbuild didn't succeed for one reason or another.

Please uninstall the package that you've made and re-run the slackbuild script again. Post the output of the slackbuild script here and we'll take a look at it.

I am typing this response from a VNC session established with my Linux Slackware box. I reinstalled x11vnc using the slackbuilds script and it worked. Regret to admit this was a PEBKAC error; specifically that I did not put the source code in the correct location the first few times I tried to install it. Thanks and apologies!