[Tilesathome] t at h on headless server

[Matthias Julius]

Norbert Wenzel <n_wenzel at gmx.net> writes:

> I have a local print server which is never doing anything except a few
> print jobs. So I could run a t at h client on it. There are a few tips
> concerning headless servers (eg. use Batik) in the wiki, but I wanted
> to ask if someone is running the client on a headless server.
>
> I did not have the time to really try it, but at the moment I failed
> because of dumb Ubuntu packaging rules, where imagemagick and all
> related packages require X. (I think that dependency has even a bug
> number.)
>
> But I guess with a bit of self compiling and configuring the client
> should run without any windows present on the server.
>
> Any tips, hints, experiences or opinions about that?

I have the client running on headless servers using Inkscape.  Of
course, Inkscape depends on X as well, but that doesn't mean you need
to install an X server, the libraries are sufficient.  I don't
remember how many extra packages I needed to install, but I can live
with it.  This certainly wasn't worth the trouble to build and
maintain my own packages.

Inkscape only fails if $DISPLAY is set, but this should not
be the case if X is not running (and you didn't log in with X
forwarding active).

I don't think ImageMagick is required to run the client.