How to use X without installing X?

2005-01-13 Thread Richard Morse
Hi! I have a FreeBSD 5 STABLE computer which is acting as a server. Because it doesn't need it, I don't want to install all of X -- my goal is that there shouldn't be anything that I can't do over ssh from a command-line. Unfortunately, Oracle doesn't agree with me. I need to install the

Re: How to use X without installing X?

2005-01-13 Thread albi
Richard Morse wrote: Apparently, in order to run the installer for 9i, it needs X. But, I figure it shouldn't need all of X, because I intend to connect via `ssh -X` from a different computer which is running X to actualy do the display. However, even once I've installed 'x11/xorg-libraries',

Re: How to use X without installing X?

2005-01-13 Thread Daniel S. Haischt
simply try to export/set the DISPLAY variable before installing any additional software. setenv DISPLAY foo.bar.com:0.0 | Your actual X-Server -´ If you are using a bourn shell you need to use export instead of setenv. Richard Morse schrieb: Hi! I

Re: How to use X without installing X?

2005-01-13 Thread Doug Poland
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 02:06:20PM -0500, Richard Morse wrote: Hi! I have a FreeBSD 5 STABLE computer which is acting as a server. Because it doesn't need it, I don't want to install all of X -- my goal is that there shouldn't be anything that I can't do over ssh from a command-line.

Re: How to use X without installing X?

2005-01-13 Thread Richard Morse
On 13 Jan 2005, at 2:34 PM, Doug Poland wrote: On my 5.3 servers, I install xorg-libraries so I can run X clients on remote X servers.  From a remote host use a command similar to: xserver% ssh -Xf xclient.mydomain.com /path/to/install/directory/OracleInstaller Hi! When I do this, runInstaller

Re: How to use X without installing X?

2005-01-13 Thread Richard Morse
On 13 Jan 2005, at 2:15 PM, Daniel S. Haischt wrote: simply try to export/set the DISPLAY variable before installing any additional software. setenv DISPLAY foo.bar.com:0.0 | Your actual X-Server -´ Hi! I tried this (I had to use xhost first on

Re: How to use X without installing X?

2005-01-13 Thread Doug Poland
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 03:32:10PM -0500, Richard Morse wrote: On 13 Jan 2005, at 2:34 PM, Doug Poland wrote: On my 5.3 servers, I install xorg-libraries so I can run X clients on remote X servers.? From a remote host use a command similar to: xserver% ssh -Xf xclient.mydomain.com

RE: How to use X without installing X?

2005-01-13 Thread Pietralla, Siegfried P
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Morse Sent: Friday, 14 January 2005 07:37 To: Daniel S. Haischt Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to use X without installing X? On 13 Jan 2005, at 2:15 PM, Daniel S. Haischt wrote

Re: How to use X without installing X?

2005-01-13 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
albi wrote: Richard Morse wrote: Apparently, in order to run the installer for 9i, it needs X. But, I figure it shouldn't need all of X, because I intend to connect via `ssh -X` from a different computer which is running X to actualy do the display. However, even once I've installed