local apps how-to

[Robert Arkiletian]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Robert Arkiletian <robark at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is a brief description how to enable local app support in Fedora 9 K12Linux
> Note: you may not have to do steps 1 and 2 depending on how new your chroot is.
>
> 1)Delete the old client OS
>
>   First make sure to umount /proc in the chroot
>   chroot /opt/ltsp/i386
>   umount /proc
>   exit
>   rm -rf /opt/ltsp/i386/*
>
> 2)Install new client OS
>   ltsp-build-client
>
> 3)Install new software in chroot
>   chroot /opt/ltsp/i386
>   mount /proc
>   yum install firefox
>   exit


Recently discovered one needs to update ssh keys at this point
#ltsp-update-sshkeys

>
> 4) launch app as a local app
>    /usr/bin/ltsp-localapps /usr/bin/firefox
>
> If network apps don't work then you may need to setup nat in your
> firewall on your external nic
>
> iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
>
> You can also set this up with the gui program system-config-firewall
>
> Note: I could not find flash-plugin with yum so I copied the file from
> outside the chroot like this
>
> cp  /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
> /opt/ltsp/i386/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
>
> then I installed libflashsupport
>
> yum install libflashsupport
>
> Unfortunately,  I still could not get flash to work with sound. In
> addition, launching firefox on a 1.4GHz Athlon with 256MB client with
> a 100mbps connection takes over 30 seconds.
>
> --
> Robert Arkiletian
> Eric Hamber Secondary, Vancouver, Canada
> Fl_TeacherTool http://www3.telus.net/public/robark/Fl_TeacherTool/
> C++ GUI tutorial http://www3.telus.net/public/robark/
>



-- 
Robert Arkiletian
Eric Hamber Secondary, Vancouver, Canada
Fl_TeacherTool http://www3.telus.net/public/robark/Fl_TeacherTool/
C++ GUI tutorial http://www3.telus.net/public/robark/