How To Install x2goagent on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install x2goagent on Fedora 34.
What is x2goagent
X2Go is a server based computing environment with - session resuming - low bandwidth support - session brokerage support - client side mass storage mounting support - client side printing support - audio support - authentication by smartcard and USB stick X2Go Agent functionality has been completely incorporated into nxagent’s code base. If the nxagent binary is executed under the name of “x2goagent”, the X2Go functionalities get activated. The x2goagent package is a wrapper that activates X2Go branding in nxagent. Please refer to the nxagent package’s description for more information on NX.
We can use yum or dnf to install x2goagent on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install x2goagent.
Install x2goagent on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install x2goagent using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install x2goagent
Install x2goagent on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install x2goagent using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install x2goagent
How To Uninstall x2goagent on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the x2goagent package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove x2goagent
x2goagent Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/x2go/keystrokes.cfg
/etc/x2go/x2goagent.keyboard
/etc/x2go/x2goagent.options
/usr/bin/x2goagent
/usr/lib64/nx/bin/x2goagent
/usr/share/doc/x2goagent
/usr/share/doc/x2goagent/ChangeLog
/usr/share/licenses/x2goagent
/usr/share/licenses/x2goagent/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/x2goagent.1.gz
/usr/share/pixmaps/x2goagent.xpm
/usr/share/x2go/versions/VERSION.x2goserver-x2goagent
/usr/share/x2go/x2gofeature.d/x2goserver-x2goagent.features
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install x2goagent on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
