[mary-users] Install Openmary without X11 on Linux

[Ingmar Steiner]

Dear Martin,

thanks for the input! I had assumed that the OP was asking about 
installing and running the Mary server on a system with no X11 
installed... and the term "headless" in my response confuses things by 
implying that X11 *could* be installed, but that that the environment 
has no display. In the latter case, your suggestion is of course a good 
solution.

For what it's worth, I feel compelled to point out bandwidth-efficient 
alternatives to X forwarding, including various flavors of VNC, NX, and 
RDP, some of which even forward audio.

Best wishes,

-Ingmar

On 19.12.2011 13:01, Martin Eisenbarth wrote:
> Hello,
>
> possibly an alternative approach would be to make use of ssh's X11
> forwarding machanism. I usually do this on my headless systems, if i am
> in the need to use a X11 application. In practice I have not used this
> with Mary TTS, but i have a strong assumption it would work this way. In
> general I use Debian based systems only, so on CentOS it might slightly
> differ.
>
> Here some pointers to get it working:
>
> 1. Make sure you have the needed X11-libs installed on the target
> system, maybe there exists a package called "x11-common" or similar.
> 2. Configure an ssh server on the target system and make sure you enable
> X11 forwarding.
> 3. Login from a gui-capable system with an ssh client (use "ssh -X" or
> if using PuTTY see the options) and make sure you already have a (local)
> X11-Server running on the client (for example Xming on Windows,
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming/, or your locally installed
> xserver on Mac/Linux).
> 4. Start the install and you should see all X11 windows from the target
> system forwarded to your client.
>
> Kind regards,
> Martin
>
>
> Am 19.12.2011 12:36, schrieb Ingmar Steiner:
>> Dear Hoai-Anh Ngo-Vi,
>>
>> there was a similar question about a year ago:
>>
>> http://www.dfki.de/pipermail/mary-users/2010-September/000616.html
>>
>> As the OP mentions, a possible workaround for installing Mary 4.x on a
>> headless system is to install in a different environment and copy the
>> installation over to the headless one. Subsequent issues with starting
>> the Mary Server in the headless environment were fixed in 4.2.
>>
>> As for a source build, I tested a fresh svn checkout of tags/4.3.1 on a
>> headless Ubuntu 11.10 with ant 1.8.2 and Sun JDK 1.6.0_30, and I cannot
>> reproduce any of your issues. ant dist builds fine, and the Mary server
>> runs as expected (all headless, no X11 installed).
>>
>> If you cannot work around the problem (see above), please post exact
>> details.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> -Ingmar
>>
>> On 19.12.2011 11:08, Hoai-Anh Ngo-Vi wrote:
>>> Hi folk,
>>>
>>> I've tried to installed Openmary on CentOS 5.7 without X11. Installation
>>> failed with error saying awt and X11 needed. I tried to build it from
>>> source. Calling 'ant dist' failed with mentioned errors in build.xml
>>> file. I think my ant is newer than the one used.
>>>
>>> Has anyone out there been successful in doing this? Can some one give me
>>> some hints how I can install openmary without X11?
>>>
>>> Thank you.
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Ingmar Steiner
Postdoctoral Researcher

LORIA Speech Group, Nancy, France
National Institute for Research in
Computer Science and Control (INRIA)