Comments on: X11 forwarding with OpenSSH on bare Ubuntu Server Edition

By: Kamal

Kamal — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:16:45 +0000

Someone may find useful that in previous Debian releases (at least “etch”) the package that contains xauth is named xbase-clients.
So you would need:

sudo apt-get install xbase-clients

Thanks for this post!

Cheers

By: George

George — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:56:13 +0000

Thanks, I had this exact issue and your advice was correct.

For something that is “so easy” X11 is such a pain sometimes.

Cheers,

George Milliken

By: Robert Rittenhouse

Robert Rittenhouse — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:33:00 +0000

Used it for the AP WebFeeds Manager java applet. Were basically using HardyLTS and forwarding X so we don’t have to install a complete install of X just to run a java applet on the server.

Thank you!

By: ciprian topala

ciprian topala — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:44:35 +0000

Thanks Werner!
If you search this on ubuntuforums you will find some people suggesting all kinds of not so straightforward solutions. It is this simple and I didn’t find a solution in 3 hours of searching for one and yours is so nice. Thanks again.

By: Craig Gardner

Craig Gardner — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:09:11 +0000

Extremely helpful. Thank you for making this available!

By: Adam Monsen

Adam Monsen — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:59:58 +0000

Thank you! Quite helpful.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:44:36 +0000

I greatly needed this, thank you.

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Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:22:40 +0000

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By: sio4

sio4 — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:39:18 +0000

Thanks!

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