Epoptes

Execute Command not working - xterm socat

Asked by Jonathan Langdon

I have LinuxMint 17 on both client and server. Trying to run a terminal window through Epoptes by using the Clients: Execute: Open Terminal. In all cases (user-locally, root-locally, root-remotely) I get an error message:

$ xterm: Can't execvp socat: No such file or directory

Whoops... found the problem. socat was not installed on the system. after installing socat, it works fine. Why wouldn't socat be installed with epoptes by default? (had a similar problem with broadcasting because x11vnc was not installed by default)

Hope this helps someone else!

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Best Alkis Georgopoulos (alkisg) said : 		#1

> Why wouldn't socat be installed with epoptes by default?

epoptes Recommends epoptes-client
epoptes-client Depends on socat

http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_petra_cinnamon_whatsnew.php
==> "APT "recommends" disabled by default."

So when you install epoptes in Linux Mint, epoptes-client doesn't get installed, and so you lose some features.

To solve it, install epoptes-client.

To help others, file a bug report against Linux Mint, and tell them that Debian Policy states (https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html):
"The Recommends field should list packages that would be found together with this one in all but unusual installations."

...and that's why Recommends should be enabled by default, as it is in Ubuntu and in Debian.

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Jonathan Langdon (langdon-jonathan) said : 		#2

Thanks Alkis Georgopoulos, that solved my question.