Installation fails: missing ssh keyfile

[marty39]

I had the free NoMachine working (with some issues) on a laptop running Linux Mint 18.3 “Sylvia,” Cinnamon desktop. The hard drive started to show errors. I replaced it with a larger SSD and reinstalled the same Linux Mint version on the clean drive. After installing some other applications I tried to install NoMachine, downloaded from the website. Installation seemed to proceed normally until the end, which showed:

ERROR: Installation of NoMachine server is corrupted:
ERROR: Missing /usr/NX/etc/keys/node.localhost.id.dsa ssh keyfile!
ERROR: Please uninstall and reinstall the package again.
Bye.

Reinstalling didn’t change anything.

Maybe I should back up, do a clean reinstall of Sylvia and try installing NoMachine before anything else. Or does NoMachine need something else before it’s installed?

 

[marty39]

NoMachine doesn’t list Mint as a supported distro, so I did a sideways upgrade to Ubuntu 18.04.1 “Bionic Beaver” and immediately installed NoMachine. No problems, works both directions. Ubuntu does everything I need.

[zaq]

Hello Marty39

Looks like you have Mint 64 bits and you installed a package for 32 bits:

1. Download the x64 package:

https://www.nomachine.com/download/download&id=5

2. Uninstall current package:

sudo dpkg -P nomachine

3. Remove all leftovers:

sudo rm -rf /usr/NX /etc/NX /var/NX

4. Install new package:

sudo dpkg -i nomachine_6.2.4_1_amd64.deb

To check architecture of your machine you can use this command:

uname -m

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