[FreeNX-kNX] Problem installing freenx-server-0.7.3 (edited nxloadconfig and 'make install' fails)

[onlinespending at gmail.com]

OK, more progress made.  DESTDIR was problematic because setting it to 
the same as NX_DIR would just append PATH_BIN and PATH_LIB to DESTDIR 
(you'd get a long directory comprised of $DEST_DIR/$PATH_BIN for 
instance).  So I just removed any reference to DESTDIR from the 
Makefiles and had it use PATH_BIN and PATH_LIB as is.

I know have it installed correctly.  But I cannot issue nxsetup 
--install, since it says root is required.  I'm not sure if I need to 
even run this.

I try starting nxserver-usermode, using 'nxserver-usermode --start'.

NX> 100 NXSERVER - Version 3.2.0-73 OS (GPL, using backend: 3.4.0)
mv: cannot stat `$HOME/NX/home/nx/.ssh/authorized_keys2.disabled': No 
such file or directory
NX> 122 Service started
NX> 999 Bye

How do I go about creating the ssh keys when I am trying to use usermode 
and don't have root access?  With nxserver-usermode is the nxssh wrapper 
still necessary?  I feel like I'm almost there.

Thanks,
Ben

On 4/23/2010 5:46 PM, onlinespending at gmail.com wrote:
> I resolved some of my issues.  After looking at the Makefile it was 
> pretty clear that the DESTDIR directory needed to be set.  That 
> information is not in the Installation Guide unfortunately.  However, 
> now I'm not seeing any sort of etc directory.  Do I just go ahead and 
> create one and copy the node.conf.sample file to there?
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
>
> On 4/23/2010 5:16 PM, onlinespending at gmail.com wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to install freenx-server-0.7.3 on my Linux box at work so 
>> that I can login from home from a Windows client.  I do not have root 
>> access, but I'm not sure my problems are even related to that 
>> limitation.
>>
>> I had no problem compiling the NoMachines sources.  I copied all 
>> libraries and binaries to $HOME/NX/lib and $HOME/NX/bin as instructed 
>> in the Installation guide (nx-X11, nxcomp, nxcompext, nxcompshad, 
>> nxproxy).  I then uncompressed the freenx-server-0.7.3.tar.gz file 
>> and issued the 'patch -p0 < gentoo-nomachine.diff'.
>>
>> So far so good.
>>
>> I edited the nxloadconfig file to point to $HOME/NX.  After fixing up 
>> a couple of more things (nxagent version check and libXrender 
>> version) in the nxloadconfig, I ran an nxloadconfig --check.
>>
>> Warning: Could not find nxdesktop in $HOME/NX/bin. RDP sessions won't 
>> work.
>> Warning: Could not find nxviewer in $HOME/NX/bin. VNC sessions won't 
>> work.
>> Warning: "/usr/lib/cups/backend/nxipp" is not executable.
>>          Users will not be able to enable printing.
>> Warning: "/usr/lib/cups/backend/smb" is not executable.
>>          Users will not be able to enable printing.
>> Warning: Invalid value "COMMAND_START_CDE=cdwm"
>>          Users will not be able to request a CDE session.
>> Warning: Invalid cupsd version of "/usr/sbin/cupsd". Need version 1.2.
>>          Users will not be able to enable printing.
>> head: cannot open `$HOME/NX/bin/nxnode-login' for reading: No such 
>> file or directory
>> Error: expect necessary for $HOME/NX/bin/nxnode-login could not be 
>> found in ''. Please install it or change nxnode-login accordingly.
>>
>>   Errors occured during config check.
>>   Please correct the configuration file.
>>
>> For now I ignored the Error and Warnings.
>>
>> Doing a make appeared OK.  But when I do a make install I get this.
>>
>> source nxloadconfig &&\
>> export PATH_BIN PATH_LIB CUPS_BACKEND NX_VERSION &&\
>> make nxenv_install
>> make[1]: Entering directory `$HOME/NX'
>> install -m755 -d /$PATH_BIN/
>> install -m755 -d /$PATH_LIB/
>> install -m755 -d /$NX_ETC_DIR/
>> install: cannot change permissions of `//': Operation not permitted
>> make[1]: *** [nxenv_install] Error 1
>> make[1]: Leaving directory `$HOME/NX'
>> make: *** [install] Error 2
>>
>> I edited out my actual home directory in the stdout from above and 
>> replaced it with $HOME.  So I have two problems.  One is the lack of 
>> nxnode-login when I do the nxloadconfig check.  The other, more 
>> serious problem, is the Error I'm receiving when I do the make install.
>>
>> I appreciate any help.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ben