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X Window System [message #1093]

Tue, 31 January 2006 11:30

ttucholka
Messages: 12
Registered: January 2006

Junior Member

Has anyone successfully setup/installed the X Window System on a CentOS 4.2 Default VPS?

If so, what desktop environment? and can you provide details on how you installed?

Thanks!

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Re: X Window System [message #1096 is a reply to message #1093]

Tue, 31 January 2006 13:52

dev
Messages: 1693
Registered: September 2005
Location: Moscow

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yes, it is possible. you can install any X window manager, like KDE/Gnome etc. Use yum to install it in VPS. We used to use VPS X server via xvnc, having a remote desktop.

other thread about this:
http://forum.openvz.org/index.php?t=tree&th=212&mid= 977&&rev=&reveal=

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Re: X Window System [message #1105 is a reply to message #1096]

Tue, 31 January 2006 17:26

ttucholka
Messages: 12
Registered: January 2006

Junior Member

I tried to do a yum groupinstall "X Window System"

but afterwards, I was unable to ssh back into the VPS

I tried stopping and starting the VPS as well as trying to start the SSH service via vzctl - no luck. Had to destory the VPS and make a new one.

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Re: X Window System [message #1115 is a reply to message #1093]

Wed, 01 February 2006 14:21

aistis
Messages: 77
Registered: September 2005
Location: Kaunas, Lithuania

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My experiences trying to install KDE (a long with xorg) into VPS:

--
vzyum 2050 groupinstall "KDE"
[skipped stuff..]
downloading packages..

Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test

Transaction Check Error: file /sbin/nash from install of mkinitrd-4.2.1.6-1 conflicts
with file from package dummy-centos-4-1.0-3.swsoft
--

So i put following following line into [main] section of
/vz/template/centos/4/i386/config/yum.conf:

exclude=mkinit* up2date* firstboot rhn-applet lockdev udev linuxwacom minicom system-config-display system-config-soundcard system-config-network-tui gphoto2 linuxwacom minicom gphoto2 kudzu desktop-printing hal-cups-utils kdegraphics system-config-packages system-config-network

and added "Provides: udev" to dummy.spec file and recompiled vztmpl-centos4 and reinstalled it.
Recreated the cache, created a fresh VPS again and ran vzyum groupinstall..
Packages installed ok. Jumped into VPS, ran vncpasswd and vncserver .. connected with vnc client
and saw a screen with terminal, then i didn't know what to run, so just typed kdesktop Razz

--

So from what i see it looks quite anal. Maybe others could comment on what was not needed in
this "trip" Smile

As for trying to do the same on FC3 VPS: i saw that it removes vzdev and dummy packages,
which in the end breaks VPS so you can't even vzctlenter into it. Have to check that one too or maybe somebody else could do it?

Regards,
Aistis

Aistis Zenkevicius

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Re: X Window System [message #3538 is a reply to message #1115]

Thu, 01 June 2006 22:06

vpslinkdotcom
Messages: 11
Registered: May 2006
Location: Seattle, WA

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This same fix worked for us..We copied the default.list file to lamp.list and added several more pacakges and received the same 'nash' error. Any update on why this manual step is involved?

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Re: X Window System [message #3542 is a reply to message #1093]

Fri, 02 June 2006 10:45

kir
Messages: 1645
Registered: August 2005
Location: Moscow, Russia

Senior Member

СentOS's X Window packages have some weird dependencies, so you can not really install those without breaking some things. This could be workarounded in vzdummy package, but I consider this a lower priority.

I suggest you to use Fedora Core 5 -- it's X Window packages have more sane dependencies so it works fine (never tried it with KDE though).

Kir Kolyshkin

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