Re: X Forwarding with ssh

[Shaun ONeil <shaun@dog-berry.com>]

On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 19:14, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 05:13:18PM -0400, Shaun ONeil wrote:
> > I know I've done this plenty of times before, but this time it's just
> > not playing ball. Any hints?
> > shaun@server:~$ dpkg --get-selections | grep ^x
> > xfree86-common                                  install
> > xlibs                                           install
> 
> You need xbase-clients too for the xauth program. ssh suggests
> xbase-clients as a hint.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- 
> Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
> 

Spot on, Thank you. I should have suspected missing packages as it's a
clean/recent install, but don't understand X voodoo enough to guess
which. (I'm not sure if apt-get in Stable shows suggests, so I'm using
that as my excuse for being blind ..)

Thanks again,
  Shaun.