There are other ways of connecting such as the Mad Scientist script but if you use things like two-factor authentication this will not work. So I brought together things I have learnt from web postings about getting it to work in Ubuntu and have created these steps. They work in Fedora 17 and should work in 16 too:
Step 1
We need to install OpenJDK Java, we also need xterm for the root password during installation:sudo yum install java-1.7.0-openjdk.i686 java-1.7.0-openjdk.x86_64 icedtea-web xterm[Read more...]