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This guide covers the installation of freeNX and the supporting NX environment from the source code. NX is a remote desktop application for linux machines. It is extremely bandwidth optimized and has clients for every platform.Look [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NX_technology here ]for details.<br>
Originally created by [http://www.nomachine.com Nomachine], it has an open source clone called [httphttps://freenxhelp.berliosubuntu.decom/ community/FreeNX FreeNX].<br>
This app is very useful if you plan to access your IGEP board from remote and don't want to get only a simple shell prompt.These instructions have been proven to work on a standard Ubuntu 10.10 system. Instructions MAY work in other Ubuntu versions or Debian. They will probably not work for other non-Debian distros. If you use Gentoo, the whole NX system is available as a package in emerge.<br>
1. If you don’t have a desktop manager installed, install gnome-desktop (don’t install the full ubuntu-desktop unless you really need it, it will install production packages like OpenOffice.org and Gimp)<br>
<pre>sudo apt-get install gnome-desktop</pre>
<br>2. Install the build environment and some supporting libraries and tools (NOTE: if you need a complete build environment, look at other infos [http://labs.igep.es/index.php/How_to_setup_a_development_environment [How to setup a development environment|here]])
<pre>sudo apt-get install build-essential libjpeg62-dev libpng12-dev xutils-dev cups expect netcat
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4. Download all the source packages (packages are taken [http://prdownloadpkgs.berliosfedoraproject.deorg/repo/pkgs/freenx-server/freenx-server-0.7.3.tar.gz / here ]and [http://www.nomachine.com/sources.php here ])<br>
<pre>wget http://download.berlios.de/freenx/freenx-server-0.7.3.tar.gz
wget http://64.34.161.181/download/3.4.0/sources/nxproxy-3.4.0-2.tar.gz
Just connect to your IGEPv2 box using one of the the NX clients found on www.nomachine.com.<br><br>
