Broadcast screen not working out of the box

[Yannis Tsop]

when trying to broadcast my screen i get:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/epoptes/ui/gui.py", line 306, in broadcastScreen
    self._broadcastScreen('true')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/epoptes/ui/gui.py", line 289, in _broadcastScreen
    subprocess.call(['x11vnc', '-storepasswd', pwd, pwdfile])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 522, in call
    return Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs).wait()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 710, in __init__
    errread, errwrite)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1327, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

x11vnc is not installed and is not a dependency of epoptes

after installing x11vnc ( sudo apt-get install x11vnc ) everything works fine

[Fotis Tsamis (ftsamis)]

x11vnc is a dependency of epoptes-client which is recommended by epoptes. Recommends should get automatically installed when you install epoptes and if they don't it's a bug of the distribution. I'm guessing you are running Linux Mint.

According to https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html
"The Recommends field should list packages that would be found together with this one in all but unusual installations."

Nevertheless, we may want to add some packages that are dependencies of epoptes-client as dependencies of epoptes too in order to avoid problems on distributions that fail to follow the Debian policy.

For now, people with this problem should either install epoptes with the --install-recommends argument on apt, or just install epoptes-client too.