I just installed the Linux version of the SGI desktop on my Fedora 25 Linux machine. This was not too hard either.
Download a copy of the installation script from here: http://www.maxxinteractive.com/site/?page_id=51.
Run the script as root to download and install the MaXX desktop tarball.
[root@localhost Downloads]# sh MaXX-Indy-1.0.0-Installer.sh >>> Downloading MaXX Interactive Desktop - Release Indy-1.0.0 - NO-ARCH files... --2017-06-07 13:24:22-- http://maxxinteractive.com/downloads/Indy-1.0.0/FEDORA/MaXX-Indy-1.0.0-NO-ARCH.tar.gz Resolving maxxinteractive.com (maxxinteractive.com)... 174.142.187.179 Connecting to maxxinteractive.com (maxxinteractive.com)|174.142.187.179|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 44211255 (42M) [application/x-gzip] Saving to: ‘MaXX-Indy-1.0.0-NO-ARCH.tar.gz’ MaXX-Indy-1.0.0-NO-ARCH.tar.gz 100%[===============================================================================>] 42.16M 123KB/s in 4m 58s 2017-06-07 13:29:21 (145 KB/s) - ‘MaXX-Indy-1.0.0-NO-ARCH.tar.gz’ saved [44211255/44211255] >>> Extracting MaXX Interactive Desktop - Release Indy-1.0.0 - NO-ARCH files... >>> Downloading MaXX Interactive Desktop - Release Indy-1.0.0 - Binaries files... --2017-06-07 13:29:22-- http://maxxinteractive.com/downloads/Indy-1.0.0/FEDORA/MaXX-Indy-1.0.0-x86_64.tar.gz Resolving maxxinteractive.com (maxxinteractive.com)... 174.142.187.179 Connecting to maxxinteractive.com (maxxinteractive.com)|174.142.187.179|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 15968136 (15M) [application/x-gzip] Saving to: ‘MaXX-Indy-1.0.0-x86_64.tar.gz’ MaXX-Indy-1.0.0-x86_64.tar.gz 100%[===============================================================================>] 15.23M 129KB/s in 93s 2017-06-07 13:30:55 (169 KB/s) - ‘MaXX-Indy-1.0.0-x86_64.tar.gz’ saved [15968136/15968136] >>> Extracting MaXX Interactive Desktop - Release Indy-1.0.0 - x86_64 files... >>> Setting MaXX Interactive Desktop - Release Indy-1.0.0 - SGI XCursors and IRIX icons >>> Setting MaXX Interactive Desktop - Release Indy-1.0.0 - GTK Themes >>> Adding MaXX Interactive Desktop - Release Indy-1.0.0 - to GDM's XSession menu >> MaXX Interactive Desktop - Release Indy-1.0.0 - was installed successfuly! |
Then the desktop environment will be installed, then you need to setup the PATH and the library locations.
Edit the /etc/ld.so.conf file and add the MaXX desktop library location to it.
localhost% cat /etc/ld.so.conf include ld.so.conf.d/*.conf /usr/local/lib /opt/MaXX/lib |
Then add the PATH to the /root/.bash_profile file.
[root@localhost ~]# cat .bash_profile # .bash_profile # Get the aliases and functions if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then . ~/.bashrc fi # User specific environment and startup programs PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:/opt/MaXX/bin export PATH |
Then the GDM login manager needs to be restarted so it will detect the MaXX desktop files. Systemd can be used for this task. Then the MaXX Desktop option should be in your desktop options. Just login and the desktop will appear. This is awesome.