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X2Go packages for Ubuntu GNU/Linux

Packages for Ubuntu are provided for several platforms (amd64/i386, lucid/maverick/natty/oneiric. From our nightly-builds on Ubuntu Launchpad we regularly copy package to the Launchpad PPA: ppa:x2go/stable.

Before adding X2Go's Launchpad package repository to your APT system, please make sure that you use Ubuntu's main and universe repository on your Ubuntu system. The very minimal /etc/apt/sources.list must look like this. (Of course we recommend to have Ubuntu security updates enabled, explaining how to do this is off-topic here, though.):

deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu <my-ubuntu-version> main universe

Add the X2Go repository on Launchpad to APT

Use the following commands to add the ppa:x2go/stable as a package source to your local system. Before doing so, you might like to learn about apt-get, sudo and ppas

Alternatively you can also use the Ubuntu software center.

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:x2go/stable
$ sudo apt-get update

You might have to install add-apt-repository first using:

$ sudo apt-get install python-software-properties

Also if you are running a Ubuntu {Desktop,Server} 12.10 system you will need to install this package too:

$ sudo apt-get install software-properties-common

The X2Go related packages should now be listed calling:

$ apt-cache 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.

General minimal guide/steps to install x2goserver on Ubuntu

After adding the x2go PPA (see above) on your remote Ubuntu “desktop” server there are a few general steps to follow to install the x2goserver for use.

Start a ssh terminal session with the remote Ubuntu server.

If you have not copied ssh keys (see x2go wiki section called Advanced x2go Setups) in order to use automatic login by user to the remote server without having to enter their password and instead you plan to require remote users to enter both their UserID and Password on their x2go client then you will need to edit/modify /etc/ssh/sshd_config and change the entry for ChallengeResponseAUthentication from NO to YES then restart ssh (sudo /etc/init.d/ssh restart).

The next step is to install the primary x2goserver packages.

$ sudo apt-get install x2goserver x2goserver-xsession

Behind a Proxy?

If you are on a site that uses a HTTP proxy to connect to websites on the internet, make sure you run the following commands first before adding the X2Go PPA to your APT package management system (replace my.proxy.server and my_proxy_port with your local site's proxy settings):

$ export http_proxy=http://<my.proxy.server>:<my_proxy_port>/
$ export https_proxy=http://<my.proxy.server>:<my_proxy_port>/
wiki/x2go-repository-ubuntu.1362749499.txt.gz · Last modified: 2013/03/10 18:06 (external edit)