Desired Features/Packages

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Submitted by Onlyodin on Wed, 06/13/2012 - 00:06

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What packages would you like to see available on the host? man? gcc? wget?

List them in this topic/thread, and your wish may well be granted!

He who asks is a fool for a moment, whilst he who does not is a fool forever. If we don't know what things you would like, then we have no way of fulfilling your wishes!

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tomjerr

Fri, 06/15/2012 - 02:06

hallo
if this possible for me to asking this packages then i'm glad if the admin accepting my request to install gcc n wget packages,thx before :)

cuerti

Sat, 06/23/2012 - 06:50

Is there a chance to install screen ? Thanks

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Onlyodin

Sun, 06/24/2012 - 08:31

Yes. I'm surprised I hadn't installed it thus far.

cuerti

Sun, 06/24/2012 - 15:13

Thanks.

abbies

Sun, 06/24/2012 - 21:09

Is it possible to get some text mode web browsers like lynx or elinks? Thanks...

colorlov

Sun, 07/01/2012 - 07:55

Will we be able to receive mail at *@{us.}yunix.net at some point?

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Onlyodin

Mon, 07/02/2012 - 00:52

Is there a need to be able to receive mail?

I would have thought it was a redundant service, you obviously have an existing email account (in order to register), why would you need more?

colorlov

Mon, 07/02/2012 - 06:30

I travel a lot, often in places where access is shaky or insecure; tunneling into my shell account and keeping/picking up mail there would be very convenient. Also, no need to access web GUIs, etc. But I'd understand if you'd rather not put more load on the server at this time. I asked because I noticed SMTP from us.yunix.net works.

oxagast

Mon, 07/02/2012 - 01:06

Could you please install nano or pico? They are text editors, I believe nano is just a GNU port of pico, but either will do... I just can't stand vi personally.

Thanks

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Onlyodin

Mon, 07/02/2012 - 07:04

nano is now installed.

jake

Mon, 07/02/2012 - 07:40

Best shell ! ;)

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Onlyodin

Mon, 07/02/2012 - 07:46

That's great! Feel free to send a donation!

jonzen (not verified)

Sat, 07/07/2012 - 20:47

Could you pls install the ncurses library? TY

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Onlyodin

Sat, 07/07/2012 - 20:56

ncurses and ncurses-libs were both installed, but assuming whatever it is you're trying to do isn't working, I've installed ncurses-devel as well.

jonzen (not verified)

Sat, 07/07/2012 - 22:13

I'm tryin to use make config in psybnc.

jsmith7643

Mon, 07/09/2012 - 02:57

a possible feature request, please..
I've been trying to get vi/vim syntax highlighting to work..
I don't really know what I'm doing.. but..
been playing around with ~/.virc and all that .. but no go.

Apparently - this *might* have something to do with it:
>>Looks like your are running CentOS. Make sure that you installed vim-enhanced package:
>>rpm -qa | grep vim
>>vim-minimal-7.0.109-4.el5_2.4z
>>vim-enhanced-7.0.109-7.el5
>>vim-common-7.0.109-7.el5
(ref http://serverfault.com/questions/305112/how-to-enable-color-in-vim-over-ssh)
on here:
it seems we only have vim-minimal*
Any chance for the other two modules.. or packages rather ? - if that's where the problem
is? - and I'm not even sure because I seem to be able to ssh into my own fedora-box
which only has the vim_minimal* and still get syntax highlighting.
thanks.

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Onlyodin

Mon, 07/09/2012 - 04:38

I've installed vim-enhanced, you may need to log out and back in for the alias to take effect.

jsmith7643

Mon, 07/09/2012 - 05:08

Thanks.. syntax highlighting works now :-)

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reario

Fri, 07/27/2012 - 07:17

Hi, I'm an old emacs user and I'd like to have emacs installed.....
Thanks, Vittorio

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Onlyodin

Fri, 07/27/2012 - 20:45

Ok.

Emacs has been installed.

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reario

Sat, 07/28/2012 - 11:01

Hi, I've also noticed that GIT client is missing....I need to download my sources from git.hub and to be in sync with my repository. It is possible to install git? thanks again, vittorio

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Onlyodin

Fri, 08/03/2012 - 08:25

Yep, git is now installed.

jsmith7643

Sat, 08/18/2012 - 07:13

hello,
Any chance for an installation of the Python Imaging Library (or PIL)?
there are RPMs for it.
Thanks.

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Onlyodin

Thu, 08/23/2012 - 21:22

python-imaging has been installed. Does this give you the functionality you're after?

jsmith7643

Fri, 08/24/2012 - 06:15

Thanks,
I'm in the middle of something this week so I can't check for sure, but I'm pretty sure that I'll now
have the functionailty I need.

thawes

Tue, 08/21/2012 - 15:58

Please install fortune and bsdgames! Essential for a proper shell :)

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Onlyodin

Thu, 08/23/2012 - 21:24

fortune is installed, but there's no bsdgames package for RHEL/SL6.

For no good reason I've mangled /etc/profile with a cowsay fortune.

thawes

Thu, 08/30/2012 - 09:29

Thanks! A shame on the bsdgames package, though.

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Onlyodin

Fri, 08/31/2012 - 08:32

You're welcome to go looking for equivalents that have been packaged for RHEL6/SL6/C*ntOS6.

magickaiyang

Sat, 08/25/2012 - 07:11

Could you please install java?It is very useful.
Thanks.

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Kobryn

Sat, 09/01/2012 - 00:39

If it's at all possible, Scrollz is a substantially more flexible IRC client than Irssi.

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Onlyodin

Sat, 09/01/2012 - 20:10

Is there a package in epel/rpmforge/etc for this?

Otherwise, you can always compile it for yourself.

joebew42

Sat, 10/27/2012 - 09:25

Hi to all,
I don't know if the service already provides a personal HTTP static repository (without any interpreter for PHP, Python or CGI for other scripting/programming languages), that can be reached by a URL http://yunix.net/~username. I would know if is possibile to get this feature or not. I'd like to put some data and retrieve them by HTTP protocol from an HTML page.

Thank you all and compliments for that service,
Joe.

karan90

Sun, 11/11/2012 - 23:58

I use telnet for playing a virtual game on telehack.com(its a 1980s-1990s arpanet simulation with virtual hosts and files from that era). So if telnet can be installed it would be a great help so I can have just one window open and use screen(I use windows at work so I don't have screen there :( )

I found this link for bsdgames: http://www.melvilletheatre.com/articles/el5/index.html. I don't know much about centos but I think this should work.

Thanks.

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Onlyodin

Sat, 11/17/2012 - 19:23

Unfortunately those packages are for CentOS 5 (RHEL5), whereas yunix is running Scientific Linux 6 (RHEL6).

If you can find equivalent packages for el6 (CentOS 6, RHEL6, etc) then I would be happy to look at loading them.

karan90

Tue, 12/11/2012 - 01:38

http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/2394771/dir/redhat_6.x/com/b.... I think this should do it. :)

Any updates on telnet ? If it is insecure or something I understand.

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Onlyodin

Sat, 12/15/2012 - 18:42

You realise that rpm was for Red Hat 6, back in 1999? (This pre-dates CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu, and many more distributions)

I'll have a look and see, but no guarantees.

And in regards to telnet, no, sorry. ssh has equivalent functionality without the same inherent security risks. There's just too many users and too great a risk imho.