geraldosimiao/epoptes

Description

Epoptes (Επόπτης - a Greek word for overseer) is an open source computer lab management and monitoring tool. It allows for screen broadcasting and monitoring, remote command execution, message sending, imposing restrictions like screen locking or sound muting the clients and much more!

It can be installed in Ubuntu, Debian and openSUSE based labs that may contain any combination of the following: LTSP servers, thin and fat clients, non LTSP servers, standalone workstations, FreeRDP or X2Go clients etc. Patches for other distros are welcome.

Epoptes has been translated into more than 40 languages and it’s being used in many installations all around the world. It’s considered mature and periodically new features are added like the recent Python3 / Gtk3 support. It’s maintained by IT teachers that use it in their classrooms, so it should be around for a long time!

ATTENTION 1: CURRENTLY EPOPTES ONLY WORK CORRECTLY ON X11 SESSIONS (XORG) BUT UPSTREAM IS WORKING ON BRING IT TO WAYLAND ATTENTION 2: epoptes enabled support for tightvnc, and this package is not present at fedora, I'll check whenever I can include it here at this repo or not

Installation Instructions

This is a testing repo and packaging, I used some old SUSEspec and some code from rpmsphere. If someone out there wanna try to use it, feedback from users is most appreciated, but remember this is just a first test for packaging on fedora copr insfrastruture.

ATTENTION 3: YOU MUST ADD YOUR USER TO THE EPOPTES GROUP AFTER INSTALLATION RUNNING THIS COMMAND:

sudo usermod -a -G epoptes $USER

Disclaimer: I didn't test it on a real user cenario, I don't have a place for test it in the real world. It seems the installation fails to enable one of the systemd services, must investigate further

Active Releases

The following unofficial repositories are provided as-is by owner of this project. Contact the owner directly for bugs or issues (IE: not bugzilla).

Release	Architectures	Repo Download
Fedora 38	x86_64 (35)*	Fedora 38 (0 downloads)
Fedora 39	x86_64 (13)*	Fedora 39 (38 downloads)
Fedora 40	x86_64 (0)*	Fedora 40 (29 downloads)
Fedora 41	x86_64 (0)*	Fedora 41 (10 downloads)
Fedora rawhide	x86_64 (11)*	Fedora rawhide (44 downloads)

* Total number of downloaded packages.