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Tarball releases

Download

People who want to install X2Go from source resp. package X2Go for other distributions may be interested in our tarball releases. Please visit this URL to obtain tarballs (.tar.gz): 

https://code.x2go.org/releases/source

or obtain code directly from out Git repository: 

https://git.x2go.org/

Installation from Tarball

To install an X2Go project from a provided tarball release, please use the following commands: 

$ tar -vzcf <x2go-tarball_version.tar.gz> .
$ cd <x2go-tarball_version>
$ make && sudo make install

By default the $PREFIX for installation is /usr/local, so basically your (e.g.) X2Go Client application will be found in /usr/local/bin if the above command series finishes successfully.

Many code projects have an INSTALL file in their base project folder that contains extra instructions for the installation process.

Uninstallation

$ cd </path/to>/<x2go-tarball_version>
$ sudo make uninstall
Many code projects have an UNINSTALL file in their base project folder that contains extra instructions for the uninstallation process.