X2Go Server installation

Please see X2Go's Server Core for detailed documentation.

You might have to install add-apt-repository first.

To install add-apt-repository on Ubuntu 10.04 or 12.04:

sudo apt-get install python-software-properties

To install add-apt-repository on Ubuntu 14.04:

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common

Once add-apt-repository is installed, run these commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:x2go/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install x2goserver x2goserver-xsession

First add the X2Go ppa repository for Ubuntu.

After adding the X2Go PPA to your remote Ubuntu “desktop” server the next step is to install the packages x2goserver and x2goserver-xsession:

sudo apt-get install x2goserver x2goserver-xsession

Add our X2Go Debian Repository.

sudo apt-get install x2goserver x2goserver-xsession

Add our X2Go Raspbian Repository.

sudo apt-get install x2goserver x2goserver-xsession

Currently X2Go cannot connect to an openssh server compiled with the HPN patch. To make sure x2goserver works on your Gentoo server, you must recompile net-misc/openssh with HPN support disabled. Add the following line to /etc/portage/packages.use:

net-misc/openssh -hpn

Then recompile net-misc/openssh, update the configuration file, and restart the sshd server, as follows:

emerge -1 net-misc/openssh
dispatch-conf
/etc/init.d/sshd restart

Then, install net-misc/x2goserver.

No additional repositories required:

sudo yum install x2goserver

Add the EPEL repository:

EPEL Installation Intructions

Check that you have activated the “optional” channel:

sudo subscription-manager repos --list

If the optional channel for your base channel is not active, activate it.

sudo subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-7-server-optional-rpms

Or use the RHNS web interface to activate the channel “RHEL Server Optional”

Then

sudo yum install x2goserver x2goserver-xsession

There are two sources for X2Go packages for RHEL 6 - our packages repository and Fedora EPEL.

Select one method only and follow adding X2Go to RedHat-based systems to configure the repository of your choice.

Check that you have activated the “optional” channel:

sudo rhn-channel -l

If the optional channel for your base channel is not active, activate it.

sudo rhn-channel --add -c rhel-x86_64-server-optional-6

Currently, even in the optional channel, there is no official package for sshfs and it is not (yet?) included in the X2Go repo. Thus it has to be downloaded form an alternate source:

sudo yum install fuse fuse-libs
wget http://pkgs.repoforge.org/fuse-sshfs/fuse-sshfs-2.2-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm
sudo rpm -i --nosignature fuse-sshfs-2.2-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm

URL to most recent EPEL repo installation package available here

wget http://mirror01.th.ifl.net/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-7.noarch.rpm
sudo rpm -i epel-release-6-7.noarch.rpm
sudo yum install fuse-sshfs

You should now be able to install the x2goserver package:

sudo yum install x2goserver

if you are installing from EPEL6 or EPEL7, install the x2goserver-xsession package also:

sudo yum install x2goserver-xsession

Add the X2Go repo to your yum configuration by following the steps on that page.

One approach is to download required packages manually. Yum will tell you what is needed, when you ask it to install x2goserver.

• perl(DBI::db) - perl-DBI-1.615-2.x86_64.rpm
• perl(File::BaseDir) - perl-File-BaseDir-0.03-1.el5.noarch.rpm
• perl(Sys::Syslog) - perl-Sys-Syslog-0.27-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
• fuse - fuse-2.7.4-8.el5.x86_64.rpm
• libfuse.so.2 - fuse-libs-2.7.4-8.el5.x86_64.rpm
• fuse-sshfs - fuse-sshfs-2.2-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm

• rpm -i –nosignature perl-DBI-1.615-2.x86_64.rpm perl-File-BaseDir-0.03-1.el5.noarch.rpm perl-Sys-Syslog-0.27-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
• rpm -i –nosignature fuse-sshfs-2.2-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm fuse-libs-2.7.4-8.el5.x86_64.rpm fuse-2.7.4-8.el5.x86_64.

You should now be able to install the x2goserver & x2goserver-xsession packages:

yum install x2goserver

Follow the the instructions for X2Go Packages for SUSE-Based Systems to add appropriate repositories.

zypper install x2goserver

Please keep this section in sync with the README.sudoers file in our packages!

OpenSUSE 11 and SLES/SLED 11 do not support /etc/sudoers.d as a place for custom sudoers config files.

If you are using any of these distributions and are having issues regarding running Qt applications with elevated privileges (e.g., via kdesu or sudo), please use this workaround.

1. Copy the contents of the “x2goserver” file residing in the documentation directory /usr/share/doc/packages/x2goserver.
2. Get elevated privileges. Either via

   su

   or

   sudo -i

3. Launch

   visudo

4. Paste the previously copied content at the end of the sudoers file.
5. Save and exit your editor.

x2goserver is available in the extra repo.

See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/X2Go fore more info.

SlackBuilds for x2goserver are available on SlackBuilds.org:

* https://slackbuilds.org/result/?search=x2goserver