starting Fedora Server SIG
Adam Jackson
ajax at redhat.com
Wed Nov 12 18:45:48 UTC 2008
On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 07:54 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Even on machines where I never run an X display on the console, I often
> find it extremely handy to have wireshark-gnome installed and run it via
> ssh port-forwarding. Likewise I might want to install VMware server
> which needs X libs and perhaps a few other things on a machine that
> doesn't run X on the console. And on some other machines that I would
> still classify as servers I run a whole desktop environment (or several)
> remotely via freenx. Are the packages split so you can easily get the X
> libs, fonts, etc., without hardware related components?
Yes, they are. On an install without any X components, 'yum install
gnome-terminal' will pull in X libs but not an X server.
- ajax
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