Subject: Re: help installing vnc
From: Iain Stevenson (iain@IainStevenson.com)
Date: Thu Mar 01 2001 - 13:21:36 MST
It wouldn't have made any difference if you did have xmkmf - I got the same
error trying to build vnc from source. I found a rpm that works via
rpmfind.net
Iain
on 1/3/01 3:13 am, david bourke at dmbourke@hotmail.com wrote:
> I tried installing VNC from the tasty morels CD. It is an RPM source code. I
> ran the following commands:
>
> rpm -ivh vnc-3.3.3-2.src.rpm
> cd /usr/src/rpm/SOURCES
> tar zxvf vnc-3.3.3_unizsrc.tgz
> cd vnc_unixsrc
>
> The README file says to do the following:
>
> xmkmf
> make World
>
> I don't have the xmkmf command. It then says:
>
> cd Xvnc
> make World
>
> When I do this I get an error:
> gcc: cannot specify -l with -c or -S and multiple compilations
> make[2]: ***[imake.o] Error1
>
> I gave up on this and downloaded VNC for linux source code. After
> downloading and decompressing it I followed the README file's instructions:
>
> cp vncviewer vncserver vncpasswd Xvnc /usr/local/bin
> mkdir -p /usr/local/vnc/classes
> cp classes/* /usr/local/vnc/classes
>
> when I run vncserver i get the following error:
>
> vncpasswd: /usr/local/bin/vncpasswd: cannot execute binary file
>
> I'm guessing that this version of VNC will only work on linux on a 386 PC,
> not a mac.
>
> Does anyone know how to install VNC on a mac system running YDL?
> Thanks.
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