How To Install amora-cli on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install amora-cli
on Debian 9.
What is amora-cli
amora-cli is:
Amora (A mobile remote assistant) is an application that enables you to control your desktop using your mobile phone. It uses bluetooth to send mouse and keyboard events to the X session. With it, you can control your presentations, movies or any other application which mainly uses mouse and cursor keys.
Amora also has a screenshot feature, where you can see a thumbnail of the currently focused window on the mobile phone.
Currently only Symbian Series 60 mobile phones are supported. A Java client implementation is under development. A proof of concept client for Linux based mobile device like the Nokia Internet Tablets and the OpenMoko FreeRunner is available.
This package contains the commandline version of the daemon (formerly called amora-server) running on the to be remote controlled computer. The client has to be installed on the mobile phone and is not contained in the package. It can be downloaded from the home page of the project.
There are three methods to install amora-cli
on Debian 9. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install amora-cli Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install amora-cli
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install amora-cli
Install amora-cli Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install amora-cli
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install amora-cli
Install amora-cli Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install amora-cli
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install amora-cli
How To Uninstall amora-cli on Debian 9
To uninstall only the amora-cli
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove amora-cli
Uninstall amora-cli And Its Dependencies
To uninstall amora-cli
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove amora-cli
Remove amora-cli Configurations and Data
To remove amora-cli
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge amora-cli
Remove amora-cli configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove amora-cli
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge amora-cli
Dependencies
amora-cli have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install amora-cli
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.