[FreeNX-kNX] Headless FreeNX server

[Henning Heinold]

On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 11:29:47PM +0100, Helder Aranha wrote:
> Dear FreeNX Team,
> 
> I'm looking to replace my current remote X-over-SSH environment. I
> currently run Xming on the client side (W7), I was hoping to go for
> something snappier.
> 
> I'd like to setup FreeNX as a remote server on my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS machine.
> I don't need any desktop or anything (just use xorg), just need to run some
> specific apps remotely in GUI mode, eg text editors/IDE's. Could you help
> me with this?
> 
> Right now all the dependencies you guys have in the freenx-server include
> kde and gnome, I don't want/need those.
> I'm quite ok if I need to compile the source just to have my custom freenx
> deployment.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Helder Aranha

Yes the ubuntu packages have dependencies on a full desktop-enviroment but you can easily
make your own packages which provides the neccessary deps with the
fake-package mangement tool called equivs.

apt-get install equivs

And from the documentation:

The program "equivs-control" will create a dummy control file,
which you have to alter before it will be useful.

So to use equivs, you do:

a. cd /tmp

b.1. equivs-control ns-control
or
b.2. cp /usr/share/doc/equivs/examples/<a control file> ns-control

c. edit ns-control

d. equivs-build ns-control

e. su -

f. dpkg -i /tmp/ns-dummy_1.0_all.deb


The other way would be to edit the src-deb and remove the dependencies you do not want from the control file and
rebuild the package.

Bye Henning