[bassetman]

I took the Linux RedHat course and now my new Domain Host uses Daemon (sp?). I now have Telnet and SSH capabilities and Shell access. How do I launch GNOME?

I know its there, because I found it using whereis.

Thanks for any help.
John

[PeterJS]

I done a quick search, and found this.....

http://www.newtolinux.org.uk/tutorials/gnome.shtml

Not sure if it's any help.

Peter

[bassetman]

Thanks, checking it out now!

[bassetman]

A new development, my GNOME is zipped as a .gz file. I went to use gunzip, but that is also a zipped .gz file.
How am I supposed to unzip my unzipper?

John

[PeterJS]

Why not try www.winzip.com?

Peter

[bassetman]

Peter, the problem is that the file is on a remote server and I'm not sure winzip would work on a Linux machine.
Or do they also have Linux progs now?

[PeterJS]

been searching, can't find much.

This link explains to someone, how to unzip, but you probably already know that.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/35973

still searching to see if I can find anything.

Peter

[bassetman]

Actually that WAS helpful! It may be that I need to install gunzip to get it to work.

[PeterJS]

lol,

If you haven't got gunzip (think it's also called gzip too, or are they 2 different programs?), you should be able to get it from here.....

http://www.gzip.org/

Peter

[bassetman]

Thanks PeterJS I really appreciate your help!
gzip is the file for zipping file
gunzip (as in g unzip) is for unzipping files.

I have been side tracked now, because I (apparently) need to setup my PC to be able to interact with the X_Windows environment.

Feeling like I am getting in over my Liunx newbie head here!

[PeterJS]

No Problem, hope you get it working

I haven't got a clue about Linux, lol. Good job we have search engines

Peter

[codejockey]

Usually, gunzip is nothing more than a symbolic link to gzip (i.e., they are the same program). You can run the equivalent of gunzip by using gzip -d. I'm a bit confused about what you're trying to do, though (probably my problem, not yours! ). It sounds like gnome is on a remote machine as a gzipped file, and you'd like to decompress it. Do you want to decompress it on the remote machine or on your local machine? If on the remote machine, you should be able to telnet/ssh to the remote machine and run the gunzip/gzip -d command on the remote machine to decompress the file. To find the location of gunzip/gzip on the remote machine, use the type command from a command prompt (e.g, type gzip or type gunzip). If the command reports "not found" then either the location is not in your PATH or the command is not on the machine (unlikely, but possible).

However, this may not be what you intend at all. You may be wanting to run an X session on a remote machine and specify your local screen as the display -- this is a different problem entirely.

Hope this helps -- additional info appreciated.

[bassetman]

Thanks Peter, and codejockey!
I am trying to unzip/run gnome on the remote system. I have SSH/telnet I am trying to run GNOME. I don't know its status for sure (zipped, uninstalled etc)..

[codejockey]

Gnome is more than a single program; it's a desktop environment that includes a window manager and many associated utilities. Unpacking/installing gnome is usually done by the system administrator who has access to the required locations. On the chance that what you'd really like to do is to run gnome on machine 2 from machine 1 with everything displayed on the monitor of machine 1, have a look at the xon command, which is designed to run X programs on a remote machine.

Hope this helps -- and if I misunderstood yet again, let me know and I'll give it another shot.

[bassetman]

Thanks CJ, I do want to run gnome on the server from my home pc.
I read something that said I may need to create a seperate login on my home PC for the remote login to the server to do this, does this sound correct to you?

John