Friday, December 31, 2010

Installing a VNC Viewer, part 2

Installing VNCViewer
**You need to follow the instructions in the Notes post first, to make the partitions writeable

Open up a shell on the cr-48, and

sudo su
mkdir /mnt/stateful_partition/opt (if you haven't already)
cd /mnt/stateful_partition/opt
wget http://www.calliesfarm.com/chromeos/java.tar.gz
wget http://www.calliesfarm.com/chromeos/vncviewer.tar.gz
tar -zxvf java.tar.gz
tar -zxvf vncviewer.tar.gz
rm -rf java.tar.gz vncviewer.tar.gz
ln -s /usr/bin/java jre1.6.0_23/bin/java
mv vncviewer/vncviewer /usr/bin

after it's installed, you should be able to run

vncviewer

however, since there are no close window widgets, there's two ways to disconnect.. either navigate to the vnc server icon once connected, and tell it to disconnect you. or, kill it from the terminal.

Also, in theory, you should be able to link the java plugin to the browser plugins directory, and get java working in browser, however it doesn't work for me, and I'm not sure why at the moment.

It's got shortcomings, but it's a start.

1 comment:

  1. Hey good work here! Have you carried any of your efforts over to the newer generation Samsung ARM Chromebook?

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