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I have a standard server setup for our application that requires freenx that I have been installing since centos 6.4, on a couple dozen servers. This server was given to me by a new hosting provider with centos 6.7, which I haven't worked on yet. Not sure if that is the problem or not. I'm no expert on linux that's for sure, this might be a problem with mirrors or repos or something else I'm missing?

Update: Packages are no longer available on many mirrors now for some reason

yum clean all
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit, security
Cleaning repos: base extras updates
Cleaning up Everything
Cleaning up list of fastest mirrors
yum install freenx nx
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit, security
Setting up Install Process
Determining fastest mirrors
* base: centos.mirrors.atwab.net
* extras: centos.mirror.iweb.ca
* updates: centos.mirror.iweb.ca
base | 3.7 kB 00:00
base/primary_db | 4.6 MB 00:02
extras | 3.4 kB 00:00
extras/primary_db | 26 kB 00:00
updates | 3.4 kB 00:00
updates/primary_db | 770 kB 00:00

No package freenx available.
No package nx available.
Error: Nothing to do

Please assist,
Thank you
Fred

Edit, looks like I'm going through dependency hell now (rpm sucks/im a newbie). Transferred the files to the server from the ATrpms mirror:

yum install libXpm
rpm -i nx-3.3.0-38.el6.x86_64.rpm
yum install nc expect xorg-x11-apps
rpm -i freenx-0.7.1-5.el6.x86_64.rpm
cp /etc/nxserver/node.conf.sample /etc/nxserver/node.conf
nxserver --adduser blah
-bash: nxserver: command not found
rpm -i freenx-server-0.7.3-18.el6.x86_64.rpm
warning: freenx-server-0.7.3-18.el6.x86_64.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 66534c2b: NOKEY
error: Failed dependencies:
/usr/lib/cups/backend is needed by freenx-server-0.7.3-18.el6.x86_64

Stuck at last step now :(

FredS
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According to this CentOS forum post, there is a package group called freenx

According to CentOS FreeNX howto, the packages are default, but there are not present in this mirror (the official one)

So it seems it may has been removed from the official CentOS repos, maybe there is any reference regarding this in changelogs (Still available for CentOS 5 official)

Here you can download the rpm and have the dependencies listed. Still I know is not the ideal approach. Epel don't seem to have the packages, maybe another unofficial repo have them.

ignivs
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On latest CentOS releases (6.6+ and 7.0+) the freenx package is gone. It is replaced by the x2go project/package

shodanshok
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