Epoptes

epoptes-client crashes in a few minutes

Asked by samurai76

Hi my name's samuele...I'm Italian so sorry for my English...

I have installed epoptes in sodilinux(linux mint17 based).
When I run epoptes-server-pc it sees epoptes-client-pc but client crashes after a few minutes.

I suppose that the problem is x11-utils package because there isn't xprop package inside.
Infact when I connect epoptes-client and it crashes, the terminal "writes" xprop not found...
In synaptic x11-utils is a fake package...
How can I install xprop?
Any solutions?

Thankyou very much

Samuele

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Fotis Tsamis (ftsamis) said : 		#1

Hi Samuele,

the problem is not in Epoptes and it's not in Linux Mint.
It is in the sodilinux CD.
The people that build it for some reason installed their own version of x11-utils, with version 10 instead of the current 7.7.
It is not a normal x11-utils package, it doesn't have xprop or the other utilities. I don't know why they did that but are definitely shipping their own broken version for a reason.

I can tell you how to install a normal x11-utils 7.7 version that will overwrite the broken sodilinux version, but the proper way to solve it is to contact the sodilinux people and to tell them to fix their x11-utils package.

To verify the problem yourself, run:
apt-cache policy x11-utils
dpkg -L x11-utils

Compare the output of those commands from your sodilinux installation and from an Ubuntu or Linux Mint live cd or installation.

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