local apps how-to
Robert Arkiletian
robark at gmail.com
Mon Oct 13 22:08:34 UTC 2008
This is a brief description how to enable local app support in Fedora 9 K12Linux
Note: you may not have to do steps 1 and 2 depending on how new your chroot is.
1)Delete the old client OS
First make sure to umount /proc in the chroot
chroot /opt/ltsp/i386
umount /proc
exit
rm -rf /opt/ltsp/i386/*
2)Install new client OS
ltsp-build-client
3)Install new software in chroot
chroot /opt/ltsp/i386
mount /proc
yum install firefox
exit
4) launch app as a local app
/usr/bin/ltsp-localapps /usr/bin/firefox
If network apps don't work then you may need to setup nat in your
firewall on your external nic
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
You can also set this up with the gui program system-config-firewall
Note: I could not find flash-plugin with yum so I copied the file from
outside the chroot like this
cp /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
/opt/ltsp/i386/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
then I installed libflashsupport
yum install libflashsupport
Unfortunately, I still could not get flash to work with sound. In
addition, launching firefox on a 1.4GHz Athlon with 256MB client with
a 100mbps connection takes over 30 seconds.
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Robert Arkiletian
Eric Hamber Secondary, Vancouver, Canada
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