local apps how-to

[Robert Arkiletian]

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.

-- 
Robert Arkiletian
Eric Hamber Secondary, Vancouver, Canada
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