RHEL4 vnc-server package dependency problems

[Frappy John]

On 8/16/05, Frappy John <frappyjohn at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/14/05, Stuart Sears <stuart at sjsears.com> wrote:
> . . .
> > this may seem like a silly question, but do you have a fully-fledged
> > graphical environment running on this box already?
> > running all the above queries on my box it looks like you are missing a
> > number of essential packages, not least of which are
> > fonts-xorg-base
> > xfs
> > xorg-x11
> > xorg-x11-libs
> >
> > basically it suggests that you don't have X installed.
> 
> Stuart--
> 
> Not a silly question at all: The server has been sitting in a server
> farm without a monitor, hence no X installed.
> 
> I'm doing development on it and would like to use the kate text editor
> via vncserver.
> 
> I realized I'd need to install some X components, but thought the Red
> Hat rpm system would be aware of that and install the necessary
> dependencies.
> 
> Thanks for your reply. I'll try installing the packages you mention
> and repost with the results.
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> John Hicks
> 

Stuart--

I installed:
xorg-x11
fonts-xorg-base (triggered by xorg-x11)

I found that I already had these packages installed:
xorg-x11-xfs
xorg-x11-libs

but xfs was not running ... so I started it:
service xfs start

and I was able to launch vncserver and connect to it just fine.

I then found I needed to install kdebase to get my darling Kate text
editor. I did, and I am now a happy camper!

Thanks for your help!

John Hicks