I have yum installed...
right now I do "yum search X11" but I'm not sure if that is what I need to install? (anyhow, yum search X11 returns SO many things I just get lost)
should I do the following:
yum install X11 yum install KDE
?
Thanks! -- Nathan
Ross Werner wrote:
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Nathan Given wrote:
If it is possible, I'd like to:
1) Install X11 stuff (I don't know how)
Do you have apt-get or yum installed? If so, it's pretty easy--you should be able to "apt-get/yum install" the program you want to run over remote X, and if it needs any X11 packages it should (AFAICT) download them automatically.
2) Set up putty so it works (I don't know how)
There's a setting in putty somewhere that's something like "activate X11 forwarding". Unfortunately, you'll also need an X server for Windows. A quick Google search came up with this list: StarNet's X-Win32 (commercial) http://www.starnet.com MicroImages MI/X for Windows (commercial, but very cheap; free demo.) http://www.microimages.com/freestuf/mix X server: Cygwin's XFree port to win32 (open source) http://www.cygwin.com/xfree Xserver: fwx (a much smaller, dustier project) http://sourceforge.net/projects/fwx
The only one I've ever used is the MI/X demo. Others might have had good results with others and might have other suggestions for you.
Ross
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