Install FreeNX Server on OpenSUSE 11.2

openSUSE 11.2

The FreeNX package is no longer present in the official openSUSE 11.2 repositories. You can find the package in the Build Service.

• Install NX and FreeNX rpms from here and here. The versions from the repository X11:RemoteDesktop/openSUSE_11.2 should work fine.


rpm -ivh http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/RemoteDesktop/openSUSE_11.2/x86_64/FreeNX-0.7.2-26.1.x86_64.rpm http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/RemoteDesktop/openSUSE_11.2/x86_64/NX-3.2.0-22.1.x86_64.rpm

• • As pre-requisite before installing the rpm above, you may need to install packages like expect and rdesktop. Install using YaST's Software Management or zypper on command line.
• Run nxsetup --install --setup-nomachine-key --clean to install the server the first time
• Use nxserver --status to check status of the server. The server runs on the ssh port, 22.
• Test connecting using any NX client. Official No Machine client can be downloaded from www.nomachine.com which installs the client binary at /usr/NX/bin/nxclient See http://walter.deback.net/blog/archives/19 for using the NX client effectively.