I have 2 questions in RH9 after installation, pls help. Thanks a lot

1) Regarding Remote Desktop (VNC). I would like to connect to my
server thru vnc client from my xp machine. I found out that it can be
done when some user already login. Is it possible to connect before
any user login ? I have only 1 monitor and I don't want to unplug/plug
between these 2 PCs, as well as the keyboard and mouse.


2) Out of curiosity, I want to install kopete-0.8.4 since it sound
great to have on small application for ICQ, Yahoo and MSN. So I got
the tgz source file and try to do configure and make. But during the
configure stage, it is complaining some libraries not exist and I know
that I need to install XFreee86-devel. The question/problem is that
when I try to install this RPM, it is asking for XFree86-lib RPM, so I
install XFree86-lib RPM. When I install XFree86-lib RPM, it is asking
for XFree86-lib-data RPM. The time when I install XFree86-lib-data
RPM, it is asking for XFree86-lib-data RPM ??? I have tried to install
thru the add remove package nice GUI, but it doesn't work. Any hint
for me in this ? (I regret I didn't choose X development and KDE
development packages during the time I install RH9. Is it possible to
install them "without so much pain ?)

Many thanks !

On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 06:30:22 -0700, lokman wrote:

> Is it possible to install them "without so much pain ?


Install apt/synaptic or yum and use them to install the RPM packages and
required dependencies; http://www.fedoralegacy.org/ just follow the
'Documentation' link for the directions.


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Thanks for the help. I went to the URL and found out that apt and yum
are very similar actually. Are there any reasons behind and which one
does people usually pick ?

Thanks a lot


Lenard <lenard@127.0.0.1> wrote in message news:<pan.2004.07.18.13.56.02.592344@127.0.0.1>...
> On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 06:30:22 -0700, lokman wrote:
>
> > Is it possible to install them "without so much pain ?
>
>
> Install apt/synaptic or yum and use them to install the RPM packages and
> required dependencies; http://www.fedoralegacy.org/ just follow the
> 'Documentation' link for the directions.

On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 18:22:30 -0700, lokman wrote:

> Thanks for the help. I went to the URL and found out that apt and yum are
> very similar actually. Are there any reasons behind and which one does
> people usually pick ?

Some like using the GUI interface to apt that's called synaptic.


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lokman <ojisama@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have 2 questions in RH9 after installation, pls help. Thanks a lot

> 1) Regarding Remote Desktop (VNC). I would like to connect to my
> server thru vnc client from my xp machine. I found out that it can be
> done when some user already login. Is it possible to connect before
> any user login ? I have only 1 monitor and I don't want to unplug/plug
> between these 2 PCs, as well as the keyboard and mouse.

I don't have a keyboard attached to my RedHat9 system.
I use cygwin and XFree86 to make connections to it.

I also automatically start vncservers for different users.
I would connect to myipaddress:17 to log in as myself, :19 for root.
# vi /etc/sysconfig/vncservers
# VNCSERVERS="1:myusername"
VNCSERVERS="17:dold 19:root"

# vi ~/.vnc/xstartup
startkde &

Thank you very much for eveyone's help. I found an article from Google
which is really helpful. I have setup my VNC server now and it is
fantistic !

http://www.prosig.com/protor/kbase/vnc-install.html




dold@RedHatX9Xs.usenet.us.com wrote in message news:<cdgv88$5n1$3@blue.rahul.net>...
> lokman <ojisama@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have 2 questions in RH9 after installation, pls help. Thanks a lot
>
> > 1) Regarding Remote Desktop (VNC). I would like to connect to my
> > server thru vnc client from my xp machine. I found out that it can be
> > done when some user already login. Is it possible to connect before
> > any user login ? I have only 1 monitor and I don't want to unplug/plug
> > between these 2 PCs, as well as the keyboard and mouse.
>
> I don't have a keyboard attached to my RedHat9 system.
> I use cygwin and XFree86 to make connections to it.
>
> I also automatically start vncservers for different users.
> I would connect to myipaddress:17 to log in as myself, :19 for root.
> # vi /etc/sysconfig/vncservers
> # VNCSERVERS="1:myusername"
> VNCSERVERS="17:dold 19:root"
>
> # vi ~/.vnc/xstartup
> startkde &

lokman <ojisama@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you very much for eveyone's help. I found an article from Google
> which is really helpful. I have setup my VNC server now and it is
> fantistic !

> http://www.prosig.com/protor/kbase/vnc-install.html

That is old information with regards both VNC and xdmcp.
The instructions are overly complex for VNc, and missing some steps for X.

RedHat 9 is more prepared for VNC, and more cautious about X.

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