This extension module allows to use an ssh connection to perform distributed copy and installation of rpm packages over a network. To use this module, edit /etc/urpmi/parallel.cfg and add an alias line as follows : :ssh: or :ssh(): where: is the "alias name" parameter of --parallel options of the urpm* tools, is the default --media parameter for this alias, is a list of nodes (network hosts), for example "node1:node2: ...:nodeN". You can specify 'localhost' as a node name if you want to include the server in the list of machines to be upgraded.