Re: gkrellm and missing x dependencies
On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 07:04:23PM +0900, Clemens Schwaighofer wrote:
> I had a bare debian box without any x libraries. I wanted to install
> gkrellm and xforward it to another box. so I did an apt-get install
> gkrellm and turned on the X11Forward in sshd and logged into the box
> with ssh -X box ... BUT I just got an error that he can't open the
> display. The reason was, he couldn't create the .Xauthority file because
> xauth was not there. so I had to manually install xbase-clients. After
> that it worked.
>
> So my question is, why is this not installed if it is needed by gkrellm
> if you don't have a full x install. Are there any kind of reasons for this?
ssh suggests xbase-clients. It doesn't depend on it because (a) it isn't
required to use ssh, only for one feature of ssh (X forwarding), and (b)
it must continue to be possible to use ssh on machines that don't have X
installed at all.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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