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Unreleased versions and unofficial (related to the EPEL project) release packages are only available directly from the X2Go project, follow the instructions in the second section to configure your package manager for this.
X2Go packages are provided by the Fedora EPEL project for RHEL and derivative distributions (e.g. CentOS and ScientificLinux). See using EPEL for instructions on how to configure the EPEL repository.
Now you can search for X2Go related package that are now available for your system via YUM:
$ yum search x2go
Congratulations, you are now able to access the X2Go packages. You may continue by installing x2goserver, x2goclient or pyhoca-gui or any other of the available packages.
Add the file x2go.repo
to the folder /etc/yum.repos.d/
.
This can be done using by your preferred editor.
$ editor /etc/yum.repos.d/x2go.repo
A sample content for this file can be found here, with the original information on http://packages.x2go.org/epel/x2go.repo. Be sure to edit this example to match your needs, mostly the enabled
key. source
-tagged repositories are only needed if you intend to build packages from source, while extras
-labeled repositories are always needed. By default, the release
-labeled binaries repository is enabled, while the nightly
-labeled binaries repository is disabled. If you want to try newer, unreleased software, disable the release
-labeled binaries repository and enable the nightly
-labeled binaries repository.
The packages in this repository can be mirrored via rsync
:
rsync -avP packages.x2go.org::epel </dest/path/of/local/mirror/epel>