Show HN: X11rdp-o-Matic – Automatically builds and installs xrdp and X11rdp

http://scarygliders.net/x11rdp-o-matic-information/

by scarygliders • 12 years ago

11 3 12 years ago

Op here...

I started this in 2012, and thought I'd submit it here; it's proven useful to many people in those 2 years, and gets used by the Xrdp/X11rdp author(s) to build their test releases.

It runs on Debian-based distributions. Someone has recently written a spin-off version for Red Hat-based distros, which can be seen at https://github.com/metalefty/X11RDP-RH-Matic

I'm also blatantly hoping for more pull requests in the future. ;)

Lastly, there's a Devel branch on Github which will soon be pushed to master and tagged as the 3.11 release, which contains additions that make this work on the Raspberry Pi and other small devices like it running a Debian-ish distribution, as well as improving the method by which the xrdp Debian package is produced.

sciurus• 12 years ago

Why do I need to run the entire build script as root?

scarygliders2• 12 years ago

Good question.

Because the original buildx.sh script as supplied by the xrdp source - which o-matic calls to build X11rdp - has always needed to be built as root.

I'm open to assistance and helpful suggestions - so if you can think of a better way to do this then I'd be only too pleased to hear it :)

Show HN: X11rdp-o-Matic – Automatically builds and installs xrdp and X11rdp

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