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Re: [Synaptic-devel] Using synaptic over the net?
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radoeka |
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Re: [Synaptic-devel] Using synaptic over the net? |
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Tue, 7 Sep 2004 09:54:37 +0200 |
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On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 09:35:02AM +0200, Ivo Marino wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 08:04, Andreas Schmidt wrote:
>
> > I do this by establishing a connection to the remote X-server via ssh
> > and redirecting the display of remote synaptic to my desktop. For
> > brevity, I use this alias:
> >
> > alias ssynaptic='ssh -X address@hidden gksu synaptic'
> >
> > May be what you need. Alas, I use that in a LAN, so for real-life
> > application it might well be too slow. :-)
> >
> This could be an interesting solution to evaluate, yes.
> The only problem is that I don't run X on my server systems.
>
> I was thinking more about something like reading the remote sources.list
> file, packages list, working on this and performing then apt-get via ssh
> on the remote machine -- Just an idea.
Just for the record, something like this is used by red-carpet
(may I talk about that on this list ? ;)
RC starts a deamon that is contacted by the client (either command line
or gui) on the local or remote system.
It would be interesting to have this for apt as well!
A good explanantin about RC can be found on:
http://lists.suse.com/archives/suse-linux-e/2004-Aug/4063.html
--
Richard