Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 14:06:20 -0500 From: Richard Morse <remorse@partners.org> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: How to use X without installing X? Message-ID: <35F05B14-6596-11D9-8196-000A956EB07E@partners.org>
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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 Oracle client software on this computer -- it won't actually be an Oracle server, but does need to be able to connect to various other servers (mostly from PHP and DBD::Oracle). 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', when I `ssh -X` to the box $DISPLAY is not set. What is the minimum that I need to install to make this work? Thanks, Ricky Morse
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