I’ve been running the XIVGui on a Windows7 VM so that I have it available from anywhere. That does work, but then I have to launch an rdesktop session, login, then launch the XIVGui, and login again. I finally got tired of the extra steps and decided to load the XIVGui when I upgraded to Fedora 16. I considered making an RPM, but I’m sure IBM would frown on redistributing their code. These manual steps work great on Fedora 16, should work fine on Fedora 15. I haven’t tested it with RHEL or other versions.

First, you need the 32bit version of libXtst, even if you’re using the 64bit client:

yum install libXtst-1.2.0-2.fc15.i686

Then just download the package from IBM’s ftp server, uncompress it, and move the resulting directory to someplace on your system, I used /usr/local/lib.

tar -zxvf xivgui-xxx-linux64.tar.gz
mv XIVGUI /usr/local/lib/

Then, we just need to make a couple of .desktop files.

/usr/share/applications/xivgui.desktop:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=XIVGui
Comment=GUI management tool for IBM XIV
Exec=/usr/local/lib/XIVGUI/xivgui
Icon=/usr/local/lib/XIVGUI/images/xivIconGreen-32.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=System;
StartupNotify=true
X-Desktop-File-Install-Version=0.18

/usr/share/applications/xivtop.desktop:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=XIVTop
Comment=GUI performance tool for IBM XIV
Exec=/usr/local/lib/XIVGUI/xivtop
Icon=/usr/local/lib/XIVGUI/images/xivIconTop-32.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=System;
StartupNotify=true
X-Desktop-File-Install-Version=0.18

Now XIVGui and XIVTop should show up under “System Tools”.

I’ve been running the XIVGui on a Windows7 VM so that I have it available from anywhere. That does work, but then I have to launch an rdesktop session, login, then launch the XIVGui, and login again. I finally got tired of the extra steps and decided to load the XIVGui when I upgraded to Fedora 16. I considered making an RPM, but I’m sure IBM would frown on redistributing their code. These manual steps work great on Fedora 16, should work fine on Fedora 15. I haven’t tested it with RHEL or other versions.<\/p>\n

First, you need the 32bit version of libXtst, even if you’re using the 64bit client:
\n<\/p>\n

yum install libXtst-1.2.0-2.fc15.i686<\/pre>\n
<\/code><\/p>\n
Then just download the package from IBM’s ftp server, uncompress it, and move the resulting directory to someplace on your system, I used \/usr\/local\/lib.
\n<\/p>\n
tar -zxvf xivgui-xxx-linux64.tar.gz\nmv XIVGUI \/usr\/local\/lib\/<\/pre>\n
<\/code><\/p>\n
Then, we just need to make a couple of .desktop files.<\/p>\n
\/usr\/share\/applications\/xivgui.desktop:
\n<\/p>\n
[Desktop Entry]\nName=XIVGui\nComment=GUI management tool for IBM XIV\nExec=\/usr\/local\/lib\/XIVGUI\/xivgui\nIcon=\/usr\/local\/lib\/XIVGUI\/images\/xivIconGreen-32.png\nTerminal=false\nType=Application\nCategories=System;\nStartupNotify=true\nX-Desktop-File-Install-Version=0.18<\/pre>\n
<\/code><\/p>\n
\/usr\/share\/applications\/xivtop.desktop:
\n<\/p>\n
[Desktop Entry]\nName=XIVTop\nComment=GUI performance tool for IBM XIV\nExec=\/usr\/local\/lib\/XIVGUI\/xivtop\nIcon=\/usr\/local\/lib\/XIVGUI\/images\/xivIconTop-32.png\nTerminal=false\nType=Application\nCategories=System;\nStartupNotify=true\nX-Desktop-File-Install-Version=0.18<\/pre>\n
<\/code><\/p>\n
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