On Jul 5, 2008, at 9:03 PM, Joshua Gargus wrote:
> On Jul 5, 2008, at 11:32 AM, John Chandler wrote:
>> On Jul 4, 2008, at 10:16 PM, Avi Bryant wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 1:00 PM, John Chandler <morph at growler.net>  
>>> wrote:
>>>> I have shell (ssh) access to a Debian host that has a DNS-able
>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>> It must be possible to develop for Squeak/Seaside under these
>>>> conditions, but it's not clear to me what the best way would be.
>>>> Clues?
>>>
>>> Install the RFBServer package.  This lets you use VNC to use the
>>> Squeak GUI remotely, and with much better performance than you would
>>> have gotten from X.
>>>
>>> Avi
>>>
>>
>> When you say RFBServer, you are speaking of vnc, correct?  Debian  
>> doesn't
>> seem to have a package called RFBserver, but vnc does refer in  
>> docs, comments,
>> and source filenames to the concept of a remote file buffer.
>
> Avi is talking about a Squeak package called RFBServer.
>
> Josh
>

Ah.  Well, that's very different.  I hate to be so elementary (dense)
about this, but doesn't installing and running a Squeak package imply
having the Squeak GUI up and running?  Is there a way to get the RFB
Server Squeak package to run without first having a windowing system
to run the Squeak GUI in?  Maybe there's a command-line option to tell
Squeak to load the RFB package so that it never tries to use the X
that isn't there.  And maybe this is all explained in the doc.

OK, I found the file that this package is supposed to be in.  I
couldn't get the package loader to go get it, but I downloaded it and
used a File List to load the file

     RFB-ikp.3.mcz

This should be a good thing, except it's not clear to me how to find
the package within the image that gave all signs of loading it.  I
suppose there's a blindingly obvious way to do it, but for whatever
reason, I'm going to have to use a lifeline yet again.

-jmc

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