How To Install nxagent on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install nxagent on Kali Linux.

What is nxagent

nxagent is:

NX is a software suite which implements very efficient compression of the X11 protocol. This increases performance when using X applications over a network, especially a slow one.

nxagent is a nested Xserver providing NX transport of X sessions. The application is based on the well known Xnest “nested” server. nxagent, like Xnest, is an X server for its own clients, and at the same time, an X client for a system’s local X server.

The main scope of nxagent is to eliminate X round-trips or transform them into asynchronous replies. nxagent works together with nxproxy. nxproxy itself does not make any effort to minimize round-trips by itself, this is demanded of nxagent.

Being an X server, nxagent is able to resolve all the property/atoms related requests locally, ensuring that the most common source of round-trips are nearly reduced to zero.

There are three methods to install nxagent on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install nxagent Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install nxagent using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install nxagent

Install nxagent Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install nxagent using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install nxagent

Install nxagent Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install nxagent using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install nxagent

How To Uninstall nxagent on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the nxagent package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove nxagent

Uninstall nxagent And Its Dependencies

To uninstall nxagent and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove nxagent

Remove nxagent Configurations and Data

To remove nxagent configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge nxagent

Remove nxagent configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove nxagent configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nxagent

Dependencies

nxagent have the following dependencies:

• libnx-x11-6

References

• nxagent website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install nxagent package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.