[FreeNX-kNX] FreeNX and Debian Etch - A Horror Tale

[Tom Lobato]

It was a bit hard, but now I run freeNX on etch. Using 2.1 NX
libraries and Freenx tarball. The performance difference fom libraries
1.4 (from debian binaries that you tried) is BIG.

 If you can wait, this weekend I`ll write the mini-howto. So the task
will be easy.



Tom Lobato

2007/6/15, Peter Daum <gator_ml at yahoo.de>:
> Hi,
>
> according to some postings here it seems to be at least not completely
> hopeless to run nx on Debian Etch.I checked out anything that I could
> find, but to no avail. Here my experiences:
>
> The packages provided by nomachine have obvious unresolved library
> dependencies (at least libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3, I didn't go any deeper
> because the free version is too restricted for my purposes anyway).
>
> I tried "http://kern.nl/freenx/" which was mentioned here. The session
> always timed out. With the highest loglevel the only hint from the log
> was that nxagent failed. Eventually I found that there is an uresolved
> library dependency on libXcompext.so.2 (while the deb package claims to
> depend on libxcompext1). The only "libXcompext.so.2" I could find was
> somewhere in an rpm package for redhat fc6. With this library, nxagent
> crashes with a floating point exception.
>
> Then I tried "http://packages.debianbase.de/etch/i386/nx" (also mentioned
> here). Again there first was an unmet library dependency, this time "nxagent"
> was linked against "libXcomp.so.1", while the package claims to depend on
> libxcomp1 (which only contains a libXcomp.so.2). I eventually found a
> suitable library in an old nomachine nx client. Next, nxagent would not start
> because it could not find the font "fixed" (which it was looking for at
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/ while it actually is at /usr/share/fonts/X11) which I
> fixed with a symlink.
>
> Now I can at least start nxagent by hand, but the nxserver is still
> not working - now the log contains the message
>  "1004 Error: nxagent failed to start with: Unrecognized option: 1"
> and at least at first sight, I can't figure out what is going wrong
> thist time...
>
> All this was taking place on a freshly installed Debian Etch system
> (Actually, I was planning to swich to debian in the future).
>
> Has anybody meanwhile discovered NX packages for Debian Etch that really
> work (and maybe are even sort of maintained?). Even if I find a workaround
> for that last syntax error, I'd be scared that the next minor upgrade might
> break things again ...
>
> Regards,
>                 Peter Daum
>
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