starting Fedora Server SIG

Adam Jackson ajax at redhat.com
Wed Nov 12 18:45:48 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 07:54 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:

> Even on machines where I never run an X display on the console, I often 
> find it extremely handy to have wireshark-gnome installed and run it via 
> ssh port-forwarding.   Likewise I might want to install VMware server 
> which needs X libs and perhaps a few other things on a machine that 
> doesn't run X on the console.  And on some other machines that I would 
> still classify as servers I run a whole desktop environment (or several) 
> remotely via freenx.  Are the packages split so you can easily get the X 
> libs, fonts, etc., without hardware related components?

Yes, they are.  On an install without any X components, 'yum install
gnome-terminal' will pull in X libs but not an X server.

- ajax
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