[ThinLinc-technical] ThinLinc 4.11.0 on Ubuntu 20.04

[Jens Maus]

Hi again,

replying to myself: I managed to workaround the issue by manually installing the „python-gtk2“ ubuntu package from 19.10 and after that tl-setup didn’t complain about a missing gtk python2 package. So what I did was:

1. downloaded python-gtk2 from https://packages.ubuntu.com/eoan/amd64/python-gtk2/download
2. installed it via „sudo dpkg -i python-gtk2_2.24.0-6_amd64.deb“
3. fixed the broken install which then installed python-cairo and python-gobject-2: „sudo apt --fix-broken install“

Then I ran „tl-setup“ again and this restarted the vsmserver/vsmagent and after that I was able to connect with the thinlinc client.

However, would be great to see official ubuntu 20.04 LTS supported packages of ThinLinc 4.11.x soon which will hopefully fix this issue and perhaps also port the outdated python2 gtk2 implementation to use python3 + PyGObject because python2 will certainly fade away soon.

best regards,

jens 

> Am 28.04.2020 um 18:04 schrieb Jens Maus <j.maus at hzdr.de>:
> 
> Hi ThinLinc developers and users,
> 
> we have just installed Ubuntu 20.04 on one of our test ThinLinc systems and noticed that the ThinLinc installation immediately stopped working. After trying to reinstall ThinLinc server 4.11.0 the installation procedures complain about a missing „python-gtk2“ package and I guess that this might be the reason why the connection process immediately stops when trying to connect to the running vsmserver/agent.
> 
> So are there any experiences in getting the latest ThinLinc 4.11.0 running on Ubuntu 20.04? Anybody having a working workaround until Cendio updates their installation packages? Or are there any beta versions we could test/use to get the ThinLinc installation working again?
> 
> best regards,
> jens 
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Dr. rer. medic. Jens Maus
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Institute of Radiopharmaceutical Cancer Research
Department of Positron Emission Tomography
Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR)
Bautzner Landstr. 400 | 01328 Dresden | Germany
Ph: +49 351 260 2757 (@HZDR)
Ph: +49 351 458 5056 (@OncoRay)
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Board of Directors: Prof. Dr. Sebastian M. Schmidt, Dr. Ulrich Breuer
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