Re: X Window System, Minimum Installation

[Guy Fraser <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

I have setup many "headless" servers with a few X-apps, as long as the 
application's dependancies
are met they should work. I always put Nedit on my servers, it also 
requires "motif" libraries. If you
want to know what a program requires to run do somting like this :

$ rpm -q --requires nedit
openmotif
/usr/bin/desktop-file-install
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
libc.so.6
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1)
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.3)
libICE.so.6
libm.so.6
libm.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)
libSM.so.6
libX11.so.6
libXext.so.6
libXm.so.3
libXmu.so.6
libXpm.so.4
libXp.so.6
libXt.so.6

$ rpm -q --provides openmotif
libMrm.so.3
libUil.so.3
libXm.so.3
openmotif = 2.2.2-12

$ rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/bin/desktop-file-install
desktop-file-utils-0.3-3

$ rpm -q --provides desktop-file-utils-0.3-3
desktop-file-utils = 0.3-3

...and so on...

So in total, nedit requires :

rpm :-)

openmotif
desktop-file-utils
glibc
XFree86-libs

I hope this helps, using these methods you should be able to pair down 
your RPM based system.

Guy

Hattie Rouge wrote:

> So if I'm not going to run a desktop on a server, just want to forward X
> to my remote desktop, all I need is XFree86-libs (and dependencies)?
> Cool!
>
>
> Hattie Rouge
>
>
>  
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: psyche-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx 
> > [mailto:psyche-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jesse Keating
> > Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 9:33 AM
> > To: psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: X Window System, Minimum Installation
> >
> >
> > On Thursday 29 May 2003 09:30, Mike Wagner wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I was wondering if anyone could tell me what packages I 
> > >      
> > need to do a 
> >    
> >
> > > basic installation of X.  This is going to be on a server and I am 
> > > going to be tunning X over ssh.  I need X so I can install a SNMP 
> > > agent.  I do not even need X to run on the server's 
> > >      
> > display.  I just 
> >    
> >
> > > need it to work over ssh.
> > >      
> > Then just install the XFree86-libs (and it's deps).  Thats 
> > all you'll need to 
> > be able to export X apps from the server out to clients.
> >
> > --
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