novnc package is missing important scripts, present in the source package

Asked by Simon Bazley

All the documentation I've found online, regarding getting novnc to work, under ubuntu (including /usr/share/doc/novnc/README.md.gz ) refers to a script utils/launch.sh to start up the novnc service. This is not present in either the novnc package or the python-novnc package, both of which are built from the novnc source.

I would suggest that utils/launch.sh should be part of the novnc package, with the following changes (to use the websockify package rather than the scripts in the originial src):-

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> #WEBSOCKIFY=${HERE}/websockify
> WEBSOCKIFY=websockify
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< ${HERE}/websockify --web ${WEB} ${CERT:+--cert ${CERT}} ${PORT} ${VNC_DEST} &
---
> ${WEBSOCKIFY} --web ${WEB} ${CERT:+--cert ${CERT}} ${PORT} ${VNC_DEST} &

Otherwise the documentation for novnc need updating to explain how to manually launch websockify rather than using the launch.sh script

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
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I suggest you report a bug.

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Simon Bazley (sibaz) said :
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