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

Troy Arnold troy at zenux.net
Tue Jun 7 16:08:41 PDT 2011


On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 03:56:07PM -0700, Andrew wrote:
> 
> I know of no GUI apps that do what you want, either for RPM or
> DEB. But don't give up on remote GUIs. Give Nomachine's NX a try
> (or FreeNX, if you want 100% FOSS). The performance is far
> superior to plain X11 forwarding or VNC. I use NX over DSL all
> the time and it's almost like using a local app.

FYI, for apt based systems, aptitude has a full-featured curses interface.
I almost never use it though, considering how fantabulous aptitude's CLI
interface is.

Thanks for the NX mini-howto.  I still haven't messed with it after all
these years.

-t




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