[Wylug-help] X over ssh

[Jim Jackson]

On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Don Magee wrote:

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> Any X experts out there. I am trying to get ethereal to work on a comms
> box that doesn't have X installed. The method is to use ssh -X to get
> ssh to carry the X protocol data to the machine with the gui. If I run
> ethereal (or any other gui proces) this way on a remote box with X
> installed it all works fine.
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> So the question is what is the minimal X installation required to get it
> to work. The comms box has a small disk so I don't want to install any
> more stuff than I have to.

run ldd on the ethereal binary. It will show all the library depedancies.
Load those libs.

An X application needs all the relevant X client libraries to work.
What you don't need is the X server running - you are using the Xserver on
the machine you initiate the ssh -X command!


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> I'm running Fedora 4 and 5 on the boxes concerned.
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> Don Magee
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