Installing VNC Without X
Rick Stevens
rstevens at vitalstream.com
Mon Apr 11 20:31:11 UTC 2005
Peter Hutnick wrote:
> On Apr 11, 2005 1:02 PM, Peter Hutnick <hutnick at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>I have a FC3 system with VNC server installed, but without X. Doesn't work.
>
>
> Oops. Opening the port helps. But for some reason every time I do
> "service iptables restart" it says "Unloading iptables moduels
> [FAILED]".
>
>
>>I don't mind installing X, but it seems . . . difficult to do it after
>>the fact. The dependencies on the RPMs don't seem helpful. Noteably:
>>
>> # rpm -ivh xinitrc-4.0.14-1.noarch.rpm
>> error: Failed dependencies:
>> /usr/X11R6/bin/sessreg is needed by xinitrc-4.0.14-1.noarch
>> /usr/X11R6/bin/xsetroot is needed by xinitrc-4.0.14-1.noarch
>> which is needed by xinitrc-4.0.14-1.noarch
>>
>>I don't seem to have a package called "" :-)
>
>
> I'd still like to know why this is.
Well, first off, the last line is looking for the "which" program
("/usr/bin/which").
Second, if you don't have X, why install VNC server? VNC server's sole
purpose is to export an X desktop so that a VNC client can see it. No
X, no reason to share a desktop (which doesn't exist without X anyway).
Just sticking my oar in here. I'll go away now.
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