Linux

Run X programs through ssh

A easy way to run remote X programs (from another host) on your local linux installation is to connect to it via ssh using the -Y switch. For instance if you would like to run up2date in graphical mode on a remote machine but the server doesn’t have X installed. Then this is a great […]

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Linux

Remove duplicate packages when querying the rpm database

Today I had to solve a RPM problem on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 4 (Nahant Update 6) system (RHEL4) where there were duplicate packages when querying the rpm database. This had happened after an upgrade to update 6 using up2date from the command line. It seemed like i386 and x64 packages had […]

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