Thursday, 21 July 2016

Fix for Xmanager error "/usr/X11R6/bin or /usr/bin/term not found"

X 11 needs to be available for softwares like Oracle database/client & many other products to be installed.

Essentially the basic components that should be in place are the following:
  • x11 forwarding should be enabled in /etc/ssh/sshd_config file.
  • The packages libXmu & xorg-utils should be installed.

Recently I built some Linux VMs that required X11 to be enabled for GUI based installations.
So I did the work, met the pre-requisites for X11 & tested out the X11 functionality on a X11 tool & handed them over.
I was surprised when the application guy came up to me & said that it wasn't working with Xmanager.

I did some digging & it wasn't working. I got the below error when I ran xstart:


The fix for this error were two things:
  • Install the rpm xterm.
  • Create a soft link for /usr/bin/xterm to /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm.

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