Topic: FYI installing xwindows to sme6 / accpac install

[sages]

For a rather long list of reasons one of my clients has a requirement to install accpac ( accounting s/w ) to their sme6 box. Accpac uses IBM's DB2 for a database and for yet another list of unkown reasons, the accpac install of DB2 requires xwindows.
I am at a loss as to why anyone would create an install package for a database that requires xwindows but that is outside my control.
To install a basic xwindows server on SME6 you will need to install the following RPM's from the RH7.3 disk 1


chkfontpath-1.9.5-2.i386.rpm
gdk-pixbuf-0.14.0-8.i386.rpm
Glide3-20010520-13.i386.rpm
gtk+-1.2.10-15.i386.rpm
libtiff-3.5.7-2.i386.rpm
switchdesk-3.9.8-2.i386.rpm
Xaw3d-1.5-12.i386.rpm
Xconfigurator-4.10.7-1.i386.rpm
XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.2.0-8.i386.rpm
XFree86-4.2.0-8.i386.rpm
XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.2.0-8.i386.rpm
XFree86-base-fonts-4.2.0-8.i386.rpm
XFree86-font-utils-4.2.0-8.i386.rpm
XFree86-ISO8859-15-100dpi-fonts-4.2.0-8.i386.rpm
XFree86-ISO8859-15-75dpi-fonts-4.2.0-8.i386.rpm
XFree86-libs-4.2.0-8.i386.rpm
XFree86-tools-4.2.0-8.i386.rpm
XFree86-twm-4.2.0-8.i386.rpm
XFree86-xdm-4.2.0-8.i386.rpm
XFree86-xfs-4.2.0-8.i386.rpm
xinitrc-3.22-1.noarch.rpm

copy all of the above to a temp directory,
install with
rpm -Uvh *rpm

then run
Xconfigurator to suite your hardware.

An X session can be tested by running
startx from a console

Rod

[organetic]

Ok, I've done it.
Now, how can I set SME 6.0.1 to autostart X every time I turn on the computer?

I already tried to change the runlevel but it changes nothing.

Thanks in advance,

Organtic.

[Ed]

If you do some googling, there is a way to install the DB2 and configure it just using shell scripts.
X is NOT needed!
Like usual, the GUI just calls base command line tools.

Ed