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How To Run Software Update Remotely. |
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 I have gotten a lot of people asking how to run software update remotely from terminal since I mentioned that I did it in one of my previous stories. So I have decided the best way to explain it, is just to post it.
First of all, to do this remotely, you have to have Remote Login setup. To do this, first go into System Preferencess, and under the Sharing Pane, put a check in "Remote Login". Now, if you are on an always-on connection and your computer is hooked directly to the modem, you're all set to use Remote Login. However, if you are behind a router or some sort of server, you have to set that router/server to forward port 22 to your computer. Ask your network administrator, or the people who setup/made your router how to do that.
To login to your computer remotely from Mac OS X, in Terminal type "ssh username@[your ip]" (without the quotes). So if your username was captainfantastic, and your ip was 5.5.5.5, you would type "ssh [email protected]" and hit return. The first time you do it, it's going to ask if you want to add the host, just type ''yes" and hit return. Now you are remotely logged in to your computer, and you have all the abilities you have sitting at your computer with terminal open.
(Incidentally, if you will be logging in from Windows, I would suggest using a program called Putty. It's small, powerful, and best of all, free.)
Now, once you are at your command line, you can use the softwareupdate command to check for and install updates. To start off, you need to type "softwareupdate". That will give you the following information:
To install something from that list, you use the same command, but put the name of the update after it. And since these require authentication, you will also have to sudo the command. So to install the iSync Palm Conduit, you would type the following: "sudo softwareupdate iSync_Palm-1.2" and hit return (IMPORTANT: don't forget the capitalization). You would get something similar to this:
it will keep saying 'Installing' with a percentage until it finishes.
If you need to restart after installing that update, it will tell you. To do this from the command line, use the shutdown command, with the restart option: "sudo shutdown -r now"
That's it! Easy huh? I should mention that you can do this directly from your machine, without ssh-ing, if you wat to feel really geeky. Happy geeky updating everyone!
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October 22 2003, 11:34 PM EDT, by
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Comments:
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| ZackMac |
10/23/03, 6:58 PM EDT |
Interesting. This is the first time that I had even considered doing a remote update with SSH with other Macs on my network.
Thanks Geek Master iKen!
-ZackMac
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| HTML Samurai |
10/27/03, 2:53 PM EDT |
Dude, you are my hero!
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| Jeremy |
11/6/03, 1:35 AM EDT |
just an update - if using panther it has changed slightly. it is now as follows
softwareupdate -l to list updates (lowercase L)
to install an update, it is now
softwareupdate -i packagename
thanks for this, just ran software update from my t-mobile hiptop.
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