Athmane Madjoudj wrote:
On 07/13/2011 05:00 PM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to use gnome PackageKit (gpk-application) on a centos 6 x86_64 system. When I am sitting at the machine it works ok, but most of the time I am accessing that C6 system via ssh from my centos 5 desktop. In this scenario gpk-application starts ok, lists packages, resolves deps, etc... but then it doesn't pop up the box asking for the root password, and aborts with a message "Failed to obtain authentication". I know I can use yum, but occasionally I like using a GUI to browse through available packages.
Is there any way to use PackageKit remotely via ssh?
pkcon is what you need
$ man pkcon
man pkcon is terse to say the least, it basically says: "The programs are documented fully on http://www.packagekit.org"
But http://www.packagekit.org barely contains any documentation.
In any case, pkcon is CLI and doesn't seem to bring much over yum. What I would like is to run a GUI such as gpk-application (the gnome PackageKit GUI) remotely, via ssh. For some use cases, I find a GUI is quite useful for browsing and searching available packages etc... It mostly works except I can't authenticate as root when needed, so saerching for packages, solving deps etc is OK but installing or removing packages fails. So: sorry if my question wasn't precise enough, what I really wanted to ask was: is there a way tu use a PackageKit GUI remotely via ssh?