Having issue running system-config-packages using X11 Forwarding
 

New to this forum, first time posting here, hello to all fellow Linux users and Admins!!!!

I am trying to use system-config-packages to install some RPMs on a remote server using a network install of RHEL that is on my local LAN.

Here is my setup:

SSH2 on remote server setup to do X11 forwarding to 127.0.0.1:8890 (configured via terminal application when connection is made)

Local terminal configured to forward from remote server to the destination host on local LAN.

When I launch system-config-packages via:

/usr/sbin/system-config-packages --tree="http"://127.0.0.1:8888/RHEL4u4

I get the following:

Unable to import gtk module. This may be due to running without
$DISPLAY set. Exception was:
could not open display.

Not sure where to look for the issue as this config works for every other server but this one.

Any help would be appreciated!!!

Thanks!!

David

do you gave a gui installed on BOTH computers

To answer your question, I am not running the GUI on either side of the connection.

However I figured out the issue, I hadn't set my remote terminal to request X11 packets be forwarded to it so the DISPLAY variable was not being set when I was connecting.

I typically do this sort of thing from another Linux box using the SSH -X option but since I was trying to use my laptop as a proxy for the remote server to get to the network install on my local LAN I was uing a third party application and missed a step.

I run my servers in init 3 so there is not an active desktop manager running, X applications are then available on demand instead of taking up system resources. In addition my laptop is (unfortunately) running windows XP so I run a X server locally in order to display the target X app. I don't usually run a full desktop manager over a WAN connection I restrict that to/from local boxes on the same LAN.

Thanks for responding though.

David