[NBLUG/talk] GUI tools to install RPMs on remote hosts?

[Kyle Rankin]

On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 10:50:03AM -0700, Lincoln Peters wrote:
> I know there are GUI frontends to yum, such as KPackageKit, that I can
> use on RPM-based systems to manage and install packages.  But does
> anyone know of such a GUI tool that can do that on a remote host?
> Google hasn't turned up anything, but it doesn't seem like it should
> be a particularly unusual problem.
> 
> If possible, I'd like to avoid using X11 forwarding or VNC to run a
> GUI tool on the remote host because it's connected to a slow DSL line.
> 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Lincoln Peters
> <anfrind at gmail.com>
> 

The traditional method to do what you want is via Red Hat Network which you
can use to register hosts and then see and modify which packages are
present on each of the registered hosts. Red Hat has information about it
at http://www.redhat.com/red_hat_network/

-- 
Kyle Rankin
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The North Bay Linux Users' Group
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