FastX Non-Root and Private Installations
System Requirements
- Intel or AMD x86-64 or ARM64 processor
- RHEL 8.6 or later (or equivalent Debian/Ubuntu etc); RHEL 10
Additional Requirements
- FastX Activation Code (License Key)
These requirements can be modified by changing the default startup options.
/tmp
directory with Read/Write access for all users- Clustering: Mounted
$FX_CONFIG_DIR
,$FX_VAR_DIR
,$HOME
directories
FastX Client
FastX can be access using the FastX client or using a common web browser. The installation of the FastX Server on your Liunx system is required in order to use the FastX client or web browser.
Installing on Private Networks
Systems on restricted networks can still be installed using the standard root tools.
RHEL/Fedora/Rocky (rpm) systems and Ubuntu/Debian (apt) systems
- Download the .rpm or .deb file from the HTTP repository
RPM Non-root Installation
Users who do not have root access can still install FastX using the following commands to extract the file from rpm. First, download the RPM file to your home directory.
- Download the .rpm
- Run the following commands to extract the files in your
$HOME
directory
cd $HOME
mkdir FastX
cd FastX
rpm2cpio ~/fastx4-server-version.build.rhel8.x86_64.rpm | cpio -id
mv usr/* .
rmdir usr
$HOME/FastX/lib/fastx/4/install.sh
Client Configuration
To connect using the FastX Desktop Client using an SSH connection, in the “Advanced” tab in the “Edit Connection” dialog, change the contents of the “Run” box to $HOME/FastX/bin/fastx-protocol
Licensing
Activating a License
To install a license run
$HOME/FastX/lib/fastx/4/install/activate
Closed Network Registering (No internet)
Please follow the instructions from the following webpage.
Click on link for more information
Running the License Server
After the license is installed, run the license server
$HOME/FastX/lib/fastx/4/rlm/rlm -c $HOME/FastX/lib/fastx/var/license
Apps
FastX can scan your system and preconfigure basic apps (GNOME, KDE, xterm etc) to simplify the connection process. If you want FastX to check for default suggestions run.
$HOME/FastX/lib/fastx/4/install/suggestions
Web Server
Running the Web Server
To run the web service with default settings, run:
nohup $HOME/FastX/lib/fastx/4/tools/run-web &